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A blog by Nova in General

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DIY Solar viewing filter housing

I recently purchased a sheet of Baader astro solar film to try my hand at some solar viewing and along with a friend have been playing around with different ways to mount it to the scope safely and effectively. Ill use this blog as kind of a "how to" to show you, the reader how we went about making a simple filter attachment for the small 40mm aperture hole on the front of my 150P using some ply wood, glue and a few screws. To start I cut 3 75mm cicles out of some 6mm ply wood solar filter 1
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My start in basic webcam astrophotography

Since starting in this hobby several months ago one of the things that have become evident to me is just how expensive it can be. Almost from the outset I started to want to photograph the things I was seeing to be able to share them with friends and family but the cost of the equipment put this beyond my reach, or so I thought. Whilst looking into the basic techniques involved with astrophotography I stumbled across a well developed way of using everyday computer webcams to capture some pretty
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