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Sumerian vamp up.....Part 2....Paint

I'm happy that Nexus works as it should do and I'm still waiting for my Feather Touch to arrive so since I have the week off work I've decided to paint the ground board and mirror box/bearings. Its a pretty easy scope to break down into parts, even the mirror cell is simple beyond belief. When it first arrived I emailed Sumerian asking 'wheres the rest of it??' :grin: Lots to do before I start spraying though, a light sand with some 600 grit flour paper, wipe with some turps and finally mask ov

Mike73

Mike73

Sumerian vamp up.....Part 1...Nexus Push To.

I've had my 16" Sumerian for nearly two years now and a while ago I decided it was time for some upgrades and a bit of a spruce up so this year I've decided to add Nexus Push To from Astro Devices, a new Feather Touch focuser with SIPS and a complete new paint and lacquer job. Part 1 Nexus I've never felt any sense of achievement from star hopping, its always just been something you have to do to find the good stuff. The only thing that has stopped me from using anything with a screen at dark si

Mike73

Mike73

Pythagoras, Oenopides and Markov sketch

Sat24 showed a three hour gap in the clouds and gave me enough time to explore day 13 of the moon.... The three named craters in this sketch show along the terminator. The largest crater at the top is Pythagoras, 130km in diameter with steep 5000m cliffs and a double central mountain (although only one showed at the time of the sketch). Oenopides is next with steep terraced cliffs, 68km at its widest point and suffers the same crushed walls as Pythagoras from the walled plain Babbage in the cent

Mike73

Mike73

Parry and Guericke sketch

Crater Parry at the top of the sketch has a diameter of 47km and although its heavily damaged and lava flooded, steep cliffs still surround it and cast an ink black shadow which really stood out and was the reason for sketching this area. Below Parry is the walled plain Guericke at 63km its larger but heavily eroded and partly open to Mare Nubium. Telescope / 4" f/11 Lyra EP / 3-6mm Nagler zoom at 5mm x220 Date 20/1/13 Temp / -1˚C Transparency / clear Antoniadi II Colongitude 17.5˚ Phase 69.4˚ L

Mike73

Mike73

Sketching? You gotta be joking!!!

It seems mad that in this day in age that people even contemplate sketching what you see through your scope. I'm mean, why bother when we have cameras which can 'see' far better than the human eye? All those beautiful colours and textures of nebula and far away star fields, its all lost in a sketch surely? Well yeah in a way it is (to an imager) but if you have decided on being an observer then I think its probably one of the best things you can do! At this point l've gotta say that l am a newbi

Mike73

Mike73

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