Mick J

Used an RC charger like you linked to above HERE, we would just crocodile clip onto the battery and plug the toy's battery in, did not notice the car battery getting low until packed up and ready to go home. We used a small petrol generator after.

We used to have RC toys, charged the toy batteries off the car battery when out and about, over a long day we managed to flatten all the toy batteries and the car battery, stuck in a field late afternoon !! Someone nice jump started us and we drove around for a while expecting to stall at a junction, see where I am going with this 😁 Caravans and small boats have circuits/controls for multi batteries, power for essentials and run the lights and TV off another battery, some sort of circuit that balances the charging. This may not be the most helpful post but the last thing you need is everything flat.

'That bit of carbon fibre at the top is a joy to behold' I do like a bit of carbon fibre ;-), looks wonderful, great stuff.

Very nice Wouter, thanks.

Nice, and runs smoothly for me, good work.

Second for me, nice to see stars in the nebula, soft colours.

I get the same, 502 bad gateway

That looks brilliant, great capture. 😀

Good to have you back Kev and all the best with the camper and setup, looks a good start.

Ouch! feel for you Graem, lets hope it all drys out OK, suspect it may take a while.

Good work Skarpen, they just get better and better, but then you know that 😁. I do like a nice M27, many thanks.

It was the SPC880NC that Morgans were knocking out super cheap in 2010 that was flashable on a WinXP machine, flashing updated it to SPC900. There was also something that enabled different modes - WcRmac a search on sgl for SPC880NC will find some old postings, also sadly some lost threads are to be found (or not found). Some other web stuff on this camera also disappeared. Good luck with it Barkis. Edit: just tried two 880 flashed to 900 cameras from the back of the drawer, plugged into my Win10pro desktop, device manager shows 'unknown device' no attempt made by windows to plugnplay.

Love the little Tortoise observatory, slide off roof ?

Outstanding pictures as always Darryl, and an outstanding thread, interesting stuff, many thanks

Hi Kronos831, this thread links to a free download in a number of formats (start with the pdf perhaps), I read a little bit most days......... as it's free and easy reading you can evaluate it quickly (I get the impression it's high school stuff). All the very best with your competition.

A mitre on the shiplap Francis, nice work.

Delightful piece of work, so that's Makita to 12volts/5volts ?

Outstanding piece of work, love the angle grinder setup to produce precise cuts, couple of old blocks and clamps - simple and easy.

Welcome to SGL, you may well be able to hold a smart phone or dslr to the eyepiece and take snaps (or video), once you fit your Nikon instead of an eyepiece and manage to get focus I would suggest keeping the exposure length short to start with. Mostly stacked exposures with the dslr are used on stars, for moon & planets (sun is a different ball game, stay safe) video and possibly the use of the USB cameras you mention above. Lots to learn and understand, Selsey is a great place to be, scope is a good start - go slow and as you are doing ask questions, I am sure you will get different answers and there is always that little thing you missed. Enjoy

Looks great Lars, great writeup on you pages as well, did you take the cloud with you? ?

Newspapers love it, snapshot from the Metro, apologies.

Have a look at Steve Tonkin's site http://binocularsky.com/index.php Steve also posts on SGL, Philip above has good advice.

I was seeing the same as you Graham, turned off my add blocker & Avast for 10 minutes, seemed to make no difference, loaded the Straton page again and chose 'show original' in the translate popup, download page opened, software (demo) downloaded OK. Also on that page is the same link as Carole's above to pay for full version, I have used digital river before and would like to think its the same, no secure connection warning from Avast (back on).

Yes a good find, I have been dipping in and out of it, easy to read and some very good illustrations. From OpenStax and a PDF is available if you don't want an ibook/kindle also the opportunity to read online.