Star-gazer's DIY telescope snaps photo of Milky Way rivalling NASA's £16bn ... trends now
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An amateur star-gazer is over the moon with his stunning astro-photos he has produced from a £900 homemade telescope in his back garden.
Arnaud Prevot's out of this world images of the Milky Way and the Orion constellation are comparable to those from NASA's £16bn Hubble telescope.
Arnaud, 50, spent weeks slowly building his telescopic contraption from scratch using concrete breeze blocks, a car brake disc and a lot of careful soldering.
He used a secondhand 2ft long Sky Watcher 130PDS telescope with a 5ins lens he bought from eBay.
It has been fixed on a German equatorial computerised mount which freely rotates 360 degrees to follow any star or galaxy in the sky.
Arnaud's telescopic cameras were built from scratch using concrete breeze blocks and a car brake disc
He has attached a 2008 Canon 450D camera to the telescope's lens which is controlled remotely by a laptop computer.
Arnaud has also wired up the telescope to his laptop which he has run into his kitchen. He can also control the telescope through his phone
