About Me

Astronomiser is run by me, Andy Ellis. I've been an amateur astronomer for a few years and have found that a lot of parts, services and cables are either not available in the UK or not available at all.

A few years ago, I started making a few cables for friends. I also made a few adapters for power control and parallel guiding of my mount (now the GPI). When I bought a Canon 300D I decided to make a serial control cable so that I could automatically do a series of timed shots using DSLR Focus and a hand-held remote control. Eventually I decided to modify my 300D for astro use to give me a portable setup for when I visit my local dark-sky site without having to drag along a large leisure battery to power my laptop. The modification of all sorts of dSLR cameras is now a service Astronomiser offers and we have successfully carried out hundreds of conversions.

Andy Stentiford, a good friend and fellow amateur astronomer also developed products for controlling and powering multiple dew bands and had himself developed a handheld shutter release for the 300D.

It quickly became obvious that quite a few people needed similar products so with Andy's help we developed the astronomiser range.

I now have Andy to thank for some of the product designs and the original product branding (and a large part of the original web design) and I am very grateful to him for helping get us off the ground. Unfortunately Andy has a very full life and busy career and was unable to take more of a role, but many thanks to him for all his hard work and the very best of wishes with his own endeavours.

I can be contacted through the contact page.