DaveGarland

Here's a lesson in not giving in. I was taking a pic of M45 when after only 18 mins I got these star trails. Wind, cats, who knows? Anyhoo rather than throw it out I used just the Object Eraser on my Samsung picture editor to delete the trails. Then used astrocooker to make an image without stars and then joined the last two images together using Snapspeed. Ok, not exactly Hubble but I'm pleased with this for just 18 mins. 

I've got my seestar set up with a power bank plugged into it, and I've only just noticed that the 100% power indicator is blue with a temperature symbol on it. Has anyone else noticed this? I assume it's telling me its cold? It's only 7c outside though. 

This isn't mine, I've nicked it off of Facebook so apologies if the original poster is on here. But I thought it was really funny. Someone has made an observatory for a Seestar 😂 

Nope, nothing! If reset the Seestar, uninstalled and reinstalled the app and restarted my phone. The app says I'm in station mode and connected to my home network. But actually I'm still connected to the Seestar WiFi with no Internet. 

Any ideas? 

This thing works so well when it works, but doesn't work so much I'm kinda done. 

Yup. 

Does anyone have problems with Station Mode? I didn't, but now when I try to switch back to my home router my Seestar disconnects. Any solutions chaps/chapesses? 

5 hours ago, Giles_B said:

It will have stored the subs on the Seestar, just not stacked them. I've had the same happen to me when I left the Seestar enhancing an object overnight and it had run out of battery and powered down. 

You were right! Thanks Giles 👍 It only got 33 mins though which is also odd. I'm guessing maybe I've tapped my phone when I nodded off. I guess the main lesson to learn here is not to sleep on the job lol. Thanks again

It could've gone into the side of my house. I'm just surprised it didn't save the good images. It was looking quite nice before I nodded off. I'm left with nothing though. 

I was taking a pic of the Rosette nebula last night. It was looking quite good when suddenly it was 4 hours later... I had fallen asleep. The Rosette nebula was completely gone. No pic on my phone or on the Seestar itself. Has anyone else had this? If the pic becomes terrible for some reason, does it get deleted? 🤷‍♂️ 

11 minutes ago, M40 said:

👍 @Giles_B

Ps the simple act of taking the seestars outside took the clear night sky to 100% cloud in less than 5 minutes 🤦‍♂️ I managed 3 minutes on ic5146 before it stopped stacking. Classic

I had this. Also within half an hour it had managed to move the whole of one side of my house in between itself and M33. Powerful bit of kit 😂 Funny what you don't notice when you're sat indoors with a wine isn't it. 

Mine arrived today. I must be on Santas good list. Thanks FLO for the very good service 👍

1 hour ago, Giles_B said:

 

I've found the performance pretty great in the inner suburbs of Bristol - I'll be interested to hear what you make of it.

I'll let you know. Where in Bristol are you? We live in Yate. 

I've been told that FLO received some this morning so hopefully I should be getting mine real soon. I've bought it mainly to take to my caravan as the sky there is good. I live on the outer edges of Bristol so not good here but I can't wait to see what it can do. 

I've just ordered one of these from First Light Optics. Out of stock at the mo so I'm just going to have to play the waiting game. Can I ask all of you who have one a couple of questions? 

1. Does it really need to be under 60 humidity? 

2. The talking thing. Does it just talk through the setting up or does it yabber on every time you ask it to find an object? I'm not too keen on that. Is it possible to turn the talking off? Or is there a volume you can turn all the way down? 

Thanks chaps/chapesses. 

10 minutes ago, Stu said:

Without wishing to cause any offence, I do have a wry smile when I read criticisms about SpaceX engineering approach and whether this launch was a failure or not, or whether just getting a 120m tall rocket with twice the power of any previous rocket off the pad is having low expectations! The sheer complexity not only of the rocket but the infrastructure to support it and the speed with which they are achieving it is mind blowing I think.

It is self evident that, like him or loath him, Elon Musk has personally driven a revolution in rocket technology, achieved by his fail and iterate rapidly approach. His Falcon rockets have over 100 return and re-use successes, and it wasn’t all that long ago that landing boosters vertically as they do was literally the stuff of Thunderbirds.

There are a relatively small number of people who actually change the direction humanity takes (whether you like that change or not); Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page cover a lot of the recent ones, and Musk has to be on this list too.

Anyway, what was my point? Oh yes. Let’s just enjoy the ride, it’s an amazing time to be alive and watch the progress which is being made. I’m quite sure they have thought of everything which has been mentioned and covered it off, they are quite good at this stuff after all. It must be amazing to be amongst the engineers actually achieving this stuff! Great fun, although I bet they put the hours in!

What you said 👏

I agree. Space X must have NASA quaking in their boots. There's a lot that Elon can be criticised for but he's got an incredible mind. He just seems to come up with new ways of doing things. Maybe an aspect of his Asperger's? I dunno but SpaceX is definitely exciting. Bring on the next launch. 

19 minutes ago, Ags said:

It got off the launch pad and flew quite far downrange, so for me it was a definite success. Most people I speak to equate explosion to failure however.

SpaceX have revolutionized space travel, and this rocket looks on track to be another feather in their cap. 

I might be wrong but I thought I heard "main engine cut off" and then "waiting for separation". But to me those engines looked like they were still firing? 

I couldn't go this year. How did it compare with last year? I thought it seemed quite small last year so hope it was better.

Fine. I don't like thier security light 😊

It's been a long time I've posted on here, but I saw this and thought I'd share it with you.

https://ascienceenthusiast.com/this-german-professor-just-repainted-his-observatory-into-r2-d2/

Surely cat litter would be better than sand? It's very moisture absorbant

Oh aye! That's a typo, thanks for pointing that out. I'll put it right.

Yeah snooty lot lol. I was just trying to balance the case a little

Here's my modest Maplins case. It's a work in progress but look at the space I have to fill! Now, what do I get next? Hmmm, think I'll have a ponder while I finish that pint of Duff