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Mukv

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  1. Clearing the snow from obsy roof in the hope of a clear night.. fingers crossed!

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      Nice :) Charging batteries for camera's now... weather report is looking good!

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  2. fitting DIY Dew heater to guide scope and finishing spiral cable wrapping.

  3. Obsy door swelled a little too tight need drastic big hammer treatment then a shave!

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      Realised that the 30 min firedoor was an internal type not external and explains the issue, trip to the local merchants for the correct door will check Wickes and B & Q also.

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  4. Jupiter season is near! i cant wait to see how my QHY5L-ii(m) performs on Jupiter compared to my old SPC900.....

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      my 300 is f4.9 but I have X2 , X3 barlows and a Televue powermate X5 and it's looking good for this evening here hope yours is as promising as mine.

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  5. Jupiter season is near! i cant wait to see how my QHY5L-ii(m) performs on Jupiter compared to my old SPC900.....

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      I want to use my QHY for the first time now I'm getting comfortable with my setup, an adventure in every sense for us both!

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  6. Feeling very geeky - managed to solder a cable together for the mount and a bench power supply. Never soldered before, so feeling rather chuffed... It works too!

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      it's always a buzz doing something new for the first time, one small step and all that well done!

  7. new computer needed, i7 or AMD 8 core ?

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      My current system is a watercooled core 2 quad 9550 ( 2.83 GHz )oc to 3.25 8 gig ram on an asus p5 mb

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  8. new computer needed, i7 or AMD 8 core ?

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      win 7 budget not an issue, just need some number crunching power.

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  9. chillin with pink floyd !

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      The wall, wish you were here, dark side, diamond basically the lot on random play

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  10. Clear tonight?

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      I have the neodymium on my qhy132e for planetary and it works ok but the D1 is for the 5Dmk2 I hope it's as good as everyone says!

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  11. Clear tonight?

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      not nice when work gets in the way! I'm still waiting to try out the IDAS D1 I've had it more than 3 days now!!

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  12. Box of goodies arrived few mins ago, top service from rowan engineering, cheers Derek !

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      yes mate less than 24 hours and it's in my sweaty hands, moving into obsy to start the fitting after the kettle is activated.

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  13. NEQ6 now disassembled ready for upgrade tomorrow

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      yes started a thread here going to be fun

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  14. time to flush out the coolant from the computer and refill with new.

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      Job done running at 25C with all cpu's flat out for 15 mins, looking ready for a load of data to be thown into the mix!

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  15. time to flush out the coolant from the computer and refill with new.

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      yes I built a cool running pc, just whats needed for this warm weather,

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  16. going to the DARK SITE tonight to suck up some of NGC 7023's photon's.......:D :D :D

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      don't get all of em save some for us! clear skies and good weather m8

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  17. Bath time, the mirror having a bath for the first time in 3 years, mucky old sod!

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      3ltr of distilled water goes nowhere I used it all on 12" mirror had to get more for seconary.a few stubbon bits hung on for a few warm soaks but surrendered in the end, found one of the mirror mount brackets was loose and proved it pays to check nuts and bolts once in a while

      Steppenwolfwest has a great guide video on youtube that stopps all the worries about this opperation.

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  18. Just put a request into the internet ether for clear skies, the reply said thursday onwards for 4 nights then for an extra £12.99 I can have 3 clear days. got to love my kids ! :0

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      Pay up and buy the ice-cream, no school for 6 weeks so playtime all round!

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  19. Praise the lord! we have internet back lool :D

  20. Light polution soloution using the power of rare earth magnets in a linear configuration with some sucsess.

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      I think I'll put it in a new thread in diy section and add photos, needless to say it was quite effective with my 300pds, maybe because the tube is made of steel.

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  21. Street light suck! I hate LP !

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      I was using 5dmk2 and every time I picked a target N or NW I got bright orange flare over 95% of image.

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  22. my daughters are trying to set me up on dates! YIKES ! !

    1. Mukv

      Mukv

      they saw the picture of Andy 5312 on my profile( I removed her as friend to stop them messaging her ) I commented to them how good looking she was and that I would go out with her if I had a chance, they then decided I needed help! they are 15 and 13 years old and I love em to bits <3

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  23. I now have power and [removed word] (the internet) in my obsy all fully functional !

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