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Typical, the Sun has spots, the clouds have parted but it's blowing a gale No imaging for me today.· 2 replies
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Today I started building my 3d printer in kit form. Bewildering number of parts! Thank goodness they are well labelled. This will not be a fast process - after all I'm a 'simple country architect not an engineer Jim'! 🙂 My partner is already getting twitchy with all the parts laid out in the 'clean room' or kitchen as she prefers to call it. Not sure how long she will be 'comfortable' with the kitchen table out of action?· 0 replies
George in his slumber chariot considering 3 dimensional possibilities.
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It's been a while since I last posted here. Three years of astronomy class and now I've joined Usk AS.· 0 replies
I enjoy astro imaging with a DSLR Canon 550D and some of my work is on my website
https://sites.google.com/site/andrewsastropics/home
It's a bit out of date and some of my latest images are still on my computer as I've not had the time to upload anything due to various other projects. Google have also changed the website hosting they do and I am not able to update it so I am looking elsewhere. Why can't I update it, I use a Mac and Safari, the web browser doesn't work with the new Google setup.
Anyway there's always another night.
Clear skies all
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Last night was beautiful in Lowestoft. Really clear night - all night. On a plus side I set up to take some lights of M31 wide-style. On a negative side my NEQ6 Pro started to play up and in combination with the guiding software and my laptop turned all my stars into arcs. Got to bed at 5.30 am. pigged off!! 🐖 BUT sitting out under the stars for five hours watching the Summer Constellations set in the west and Orion rising in the South East how can that be bad? M33 was really easy in my big bins and I think I spotted M1 with averted vision. Loads of Ms all round and the Garnet Star was big and red and beautiful. Not many meteors (saw three in five hours) but one was nicely spectacular. Have spent today in the backyard re-fitting my mount on its pillar - reduced the play on the central fixing -I also cleaned all the electrical contacts. Will probably reload PHD2 software before I go 'a guiding' again. When the stars come out tonight I shall realign on Polaris but I will give imaging a miss tonight cos I'm a really tired old man and according to Metcheck its going to rain here in the early hours of tomorrow morning.· 1 reply
I rarely photograph my 'refractor in action' but I did early this morning and it turns out it was the only image worth a look! 😉
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