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Todd8137s adventure into space

my horrible day!

hi all well phewwwww am glad to day is done because what a day its been the new serial to usb came today all excited i unwrapped it and thought good by to the old one which i trapped in the door 4 nights ago half a sleep,half awake ,i trapped it in a heavy door big ali one chopped it clean in half. so to flea bay i went thinking a cheap one at 10 quid would do the job,not!what a hassle it turnede out to be i riiged every thing up and thouht all would work well all plug and play the laptop top i
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Todd8137s adventure into space

meade Auto star #497 alignment stars northern hemisphere

hi all am sure any one that gets a meade goto scope and as not really thought about the alignment thing ,so you set up and are not sure were any thing is star wise it then says "slewing to Etamin" as you gasp and get you books and stellarium going a bet you wish you just had a print out to show the stars in the conste http://www.weasner.com/etx/autostar/AlignmentStars497A4.pdf found this as a was searching for some thing else it also shows the southern hem so download it my help if you do
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Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)

ATIK responds!

A quick post to say we've had a response from ATIK. They're happy to work with us under NDA - obviously we need to see the details of the NDA however I see this working out like their currently free-to-use drivers for Windows with the AOSX plugin being available for people to use through AOSX. I'll keep you updated!
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Todd8137s adventure into space

moon last night

took a few vids of the moon last night 90mm spc900 picsare 40% zoomed on average each pic had about 1200 frames each or there abouts was doge in the clouds most of the night http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/todd8137/15%207%202011%200125/ thanks pat
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Blog 22857

The little telescope that COULD!

Being on vacation makes it hard for me to come online. This entry is a feeble attempt to reconnect with those that thirst for the stars. I hope everyone is doing well! July 12th, 2011 I couldn't wait to try my summer telescope ever since I had purchased it many weeks ago, My new acquisition was nothing compared to my ocular masterpiece (Sky-Watcher seen below) back in the north. Let's just say that there is quite a difference between an aperture of 10" and one of 4.5". However
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Todd8137s adventure into space

sharpcap

hi all lots of people ask me what settings i use on sharpcap so here is a try at how to set it up be gentle its my first attempt at doing this and use in the software to do it 50 goes latter i got there not the best how to video in the world but its a start YouTube - ‪todd8137's Channel‬‏ thanks for looking pat
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Todd8137s adventure into space

sharpcap video

hi all lots of people ask me what settings i use on sharpcap so here is a try at how to set it up be gentle its my first attempt at doing this and use in the software to do it 50 goes latter i got there not the best how to video in the world but its a start http://www.youtube.com/user/todd8137?feature=mhee thanks for looking pat
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Todd8137s adventure into space

Help turn the street lights down in Derbyshire(form)

hi all to those in derbyshire heres a online form to fill in to lower and dim street lights in derbyshire please fill in the form to help the cause http://forms.derbyshirepartnership.gov.uk/tempdocs/000001305/Part%20Night%20Lighting%20Questionnaire.HTM do not forget we pay3.2 million a year dimming the lights would save 700,000 a year and lower DC COUNCILS CARBON EMISSIONS BY 3% up to 75 % of the country as done this crime and anti socail probs have not gone up or down please fill the form in
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Blog 27788

Moon with my Finepix Camera

I'm very new to astrophotography ,the other night I got this amazing close-up of the moon and thought i'd post it here. I hope soon to try to photograph planets, Jupiter ,saturn etc ,anyone know how I would go about doing that? ,I have some idea but I could use some advice. :) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/dscf0619xy.jpg/
Rhys.pacs

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tibbs1972archive

Last nights deep sky image stacked.

Hi, I've now stacked 20 and 45 images using deep sky stacker, which was really simple to use. I also used gimp to adjust the curves, I think. Luckily I had 5 darks on file, so I managed to remove some pollution as well. Seem to be a much clearer, crisper image now. I think I still need a lot of experience stacking and adjusting curves, but its a start.
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Nick's blog, including AOSX (Astronomy on OSX)

A possible sticking point for ATIK support in AOSX..

I've been playing with the 383L+ again for a couple of hours and one aspect may be a sticking point of ATIK support in AOSX - the copyright of the CCD firmware. In short, each time the ATIK driver initialises the ATIK high speed cameras, it downloads a small application that runs on the 383L's 8051 microcontroller. I'm assuming this firmware is written by ATIK, or at least not by Cypress, and therefore I suspect this would be copyrighted to ATIK (although no copyright is present in the code). Th
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Todd8137s adventure into space

space clouds ?

HI all last night came in the house packed every thing away looked out the toilet window and saw these clouds a saw some pics the other day on sgl but thought i would never see the it was around 02:45 iso 200, 5 secs cheers pat clear skies ps as you can see the painted out street lights may garden is now in total darkness
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tibbs1972archive

Late night tonight / early morning

Pretty chuffed tonight. I saw Jupoter in the east this morning, and also saw Andromeda for the first time with my Camera on a 20sec exposure, which you can see in the bottom RH corner of the second image. I'm pretty pleased about finding Andromeda, as it's the firsy galaxy I've ever spotted.
tibbs1972

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street light victory

VICTORY Hi all a victory for me after about 3 months of constant complaining to my local county council daily and to the local MP and to the governments environmental agency and the mp in the house of commons who deals with this .this morning a guy knocked on my door and announced that he would paint me 4 street lights out and to point the ones out that caused me hassle ,after make in him and is pal a cuppa tea and got the good biscuits out for them we had a walk to the bain of m
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Blog 27692

Greetings fellow Gazers

Hi all, I'll be getting a Skywatcher 1145p as a present:), the reviews seem good. This will be my first telescope. I've been using binoculars for years. Any advice on filters and extra lenses?
Richardvdm

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Blog 24251

9x50 finderscope and Spc900?

Hi Just attempting to pick someones brain with this, I was wandering whether anyone has done this (ie used finderscope as guider with webcam)and what parts are needed to do the job(specifically to SW 200 ref). Everytime i pop to B&Q i but some form of plumbing equipment but still no such luck. Thanks
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