When I first started stargazing as a kid, I had a pocket-sized book of star charts called Collins Gem Guide to The Night Sky that I used to find constellations. The night sky was intimidating to me back then though, because I wasn’t very good at math – I used to struggle working out which eyepiece I needed to switch out on my cheap telescope to see higher magnitudes (fainter stars).
In retrospect, I didn’t keep up the hobby as much as I would have liked. But a few years ago when I was living in the countryside in Suffolk, I spotted a familiar cluster of stars called the Pleiades – more commonly known as the Seven Sisters. It was around that time that I came across an app that could turn my phone into a miniature planetarium and ever since, my love for astronomy has been completely reignited.
