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Whats Happening in my Atronomy World

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Been a while

Hello All   Been a while since I last went out, due to cloud and timing of the clear nights, all ways when im on morning shift. During this time I’ve done a system swap from my Olympus E-510 to a Canon EOS1100D. got same kit off the bay, 2 zooms and a flash gun. Now have to get the old stuff sold.   Saturday 12 September   Got a few hours in last night, Visual only with the 150p on the EQ 3-2, with new motor upgrade. M39 open cluster The perseus double cluster M103 open cluster All were s

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8th to 16 August

Hello All   Saturday 8 August Got the new ZWO120mm-s on the st80 as a guider atop the astromaster 130eq Went after M52 All went well apart from the backlash in Dec causing a drop off the chart. Had to up the correction time to 999ms (max) had a massive saw tooth pattern but it was bringing it back. So ive proven that the mount is guidable. Got a good image with round stars in the middle so I just need to fix the coma. Got the baader MPCC to try out once ive moded the astromaster to a 2inch focu

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15 to 21 July (2 outings)

Hello All   Friday 17 July   Big set up.   150pl on the exos 2 GOTO   First target was Saturn to see what the longer FL made. I wasn’t disappointed, more magnification on the same EP. Used the 9mm x-cell (133x) the view was superb even though it was behind trees for a while and very low in the sky. Next outing I will capture some webcam video and see how it goes.   150p on the EQ 3-2 manual   Found M57 ring nebula. This was more an experiment in seeing how my manual finding skills were. I must s

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In the Beginning

“the Story So Far”   This is my first ever blog   It started Christmas 2014 when I had a Celestron astro master 130 EQ with motor drive. I soon discovered that although the OTS part was great the mount and motor drive were severely lacking in quality and function. First I stripped and re-greased the mount and modified the motor drive to use 8 rechargeable AA batteries to provide more amps as the pp3 was poor in the cold. This made a massive improvement to the mount and made viewing a little mor

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