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Who writes this

The site is organised into desks rather than personalities. Each covers a distinct area and writes from actual use.

SmartScope Dark Sky Desk

Dark-sky travel, light-pollution measurement and the certified places worth driving to. Covers what a Bortle class actually looks like at the eyepiece and how to plan a trip around the moon. [REPLACE: name the author and any IDA or club affiliation before launch.]

5 articles

SmartScope Field Notes

Session write-ups from the field: what was attempted, what the sky did, and what came out of it. Field Notes exists to show the unglamorous middle of astrophotography, the nights that half-work, because those are the ones nobody publishes. [REPLACE: name the observer and home site before launch.]

7 articles

SmartScope Reviews Desk

Hands-on equipment testing for SmartScope Club. Every review on this desk is written from nights actually spent with the hardware under real skies, with the Bortle class, session length and weather stated so you can judge the result against your own conditions. [REPLACE: name the reviewer and their observing background before launch.]

12 articles

SmartScope Sky Guide

Observing guides and sky-mechanics explainers for people who own a smart telescope and want to understand what it is doing. Aimed at the first two years of the hobby, when the questions are practical rather than technical. [REPLACE: name the author and their teaching or outreach background before launch.]

13 articles