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Viewing - Fri 22th Apr 11


The Sailor

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The evening started with a rerun of the previous night, an alignment from the idiots guide. I decided on this course of action to see what was going wrong, needless to say it was again a disaster and by 2330 hrs I decided to return to the old way of point, polar align and 3 star align, straight away I seen results in the handling. I put Saturn in the frame and left it for 30 min and it was still there when I came back. During the day I had a play with a remote timer and had set it up for the evening, plugged it in and away it went, me for a coffee :). All went well for the evening and another obstacle sorted :). Just remembered, earlier in the evening noticed on Stellarium that the ISS was about to rise so got the camera ready with a telephoto lens, watched the ISS move across the sky, a bright light against the now darkening background, up swept the camera, focused and clicked, nothing happened!! Did this a couple of times more but again a dud, have to work on this lol. The ISS came over again later but was in darkness so could only watch it's progress on Stellarium :(.

Jim

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It is great to see Isabelle, always remember when Sputnik and all the other satellites were being first sent up, people said the could see them now and again, for me it was a dream :). Nowadays, seeing the ISS has become second nature as a when I know it is around. I don't know if it's orbit will take it your way Isabelle but you can check with Stellarium :)

Jim

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That's the problem actually. I have the recent version of Stellarium but can't find the button to pinpoint it's direction. Can you help me?

Isabelle

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Hi all have you downloaded all the files for the when you download stel it comes with the normal stuff goto

config window

clik tools

and at the botton you will see were it says download catalogues download them all makes stell 100 times better

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The updates have to be done regularly with that plug-in but now it works fine. Does it show that I'm technologically challenged. Good thing that my telescope only has mirros and lenses to worry about.

Oh man,.. then there's collimation! :)

Isabelle

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Oh Lord, don't mention that subject, my SCT has given me headaches for quite awile but is okay now, fingers crossed :). Well you are getting somewhere now and thats good, just to give you something to think about, as I only have a North thru East to South view that is the view I have in Stellarium when it opens, I do this by setting all up and without mioving anything I save the configuration, also as said it automaticlly updates each time it is opens :).

Jim

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