pixelsaurus
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Hi Ben. Welcome to SGL. Keep up the good work. 🌏
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Hi Nick. Welcome aboard.
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Kia ora. Welcome aboard. I lived in Windy Welly for a bit a while back. King Country is home now. 👍
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Welcome to SGL Peter.
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Hi and welcome to SGL.
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Welcome to SGL.
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What equipment got you into astronomy?
pixelsaurus replied to refractor2345's topic in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
For me it was Sputnik. I was 5. My first telescope was a 20x50 Carton refractor with a desk tripod. I used to perch it on a table outside and look at the moon. This was in 1969, the year I saw my first comet - Tago-Sato-Kosaka (1969g). -
Cheers. I completely missed that.
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Awesome. Anyone what the blue nebula at the bottom of the frame is?
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Mel Bartels has something to say about viewing the Horsey. http://bbastrodesigns.com/6inchF2.8/6 Inch F2.8 Telescope.html
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Welcome to SGL Chris
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Welcome aboard. Gotta love a 12" so long as it is not too big/heavy to manage by yourself. 😀
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Cheers. Haven't been to the caves yet as only been here just over a year. Monteith's is OK but I prefer Orchard Theives Cider myself. 😀
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Hi Sam, Welcome aboard. Mike.
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Got an iOptron SkyGuider Pro from Santa but ever since then, it has either been cloudy or downright raining. All I need now is a decent tripod and clear skies.
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This a 15 image stack in DSS. It shows Comet Lemmon, 47 Tuc, and the Small Magellanic Cloud. It also shows severe streaking generated in DSS for which I can find no cure. -
It is supposed to be winter so why do I have chronic hayfever? Perhaps it has something to do with the daffs being in flower and buds on the fig tree.
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Had the dob a year now. I have decided an EQ platform is a path to follow.
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Read cumets - cubic metres.
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I think I will resort to a jig. If I cut anything by hand, I'm just asking for disappointment. So I guess the next question is: what kind of drive did you settle for? Tangent arm, friction drive on the sector rim, rack and pinion? As soon as I get the garage cleaned up and stack the 3 cumecs of firewood to be delivered Thursday, it will be time for me to make a start. You give me hope.
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Thanks for that. I assume you mean the templates on reinervogels site. Not sure they would work for me as my latitude doesn't coincide with those listed. Also I do not trust my manual skills enough to try and make them. I was sort of hoping an elliptical sector could be formed in a similar fashion to the sectors on the cylindrical bearing platforms ie on a jig. Thanks anyway.
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Did you shape the north sector circular or elliptical?
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Just brought in the rubbish bin. Milky Way prominent from Carina to past Scorpio. Galactic bulge and dark rifts easily visible. Guess I will have to go and drag out the dob. Hate that :-)
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First Light with the 300mm Dob last night. Saturn,M4,Omega Centauri,Eta Carina, Jewel Box, NGC 2516 and cloud.
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After a truly cracker summer, (NZ has just had it's worst drought in 30 years), I just ordered a 300mm dob. Rain patterns have returned to normal. Story of my life.
