Mognet

It slices in Cura, but it's also giving messages about model errors. I'll try printing soon to see if it works

Is this a common problem round your way, or were the cows I lived near in rural Suffolk equipped with night vision? 🤨🤣

I can see it now. It looks good too.

Hi Chris, I can't see the image without signing in to the modelling forum there

I'm sure my skies have got worse in the last couple of years, mostly since neighbouring towns started installing LED lighting. The view south now has a constant haze that hides all but the brightest stars below 30 degrees I'm going to have to start making regular trips to the local dark sky sites as doing anything from home is becoming difficult

That also includes the humans, as She Who Must Be Obeyed reminds me frequently!

The build up and let down of weather forecasts! Clear Outside promised a clear night tonight. I saw solid cloud come over at sunset and it's still not gone. CO has changed its mind since. Currently saying clear tomorrow night too, but I'll believe it when I see it It's not my only gripe, just one of a long list of things

I get similar here. It wasn't until the first lockdown that I noticed just how many planes flew overhead every day here. It seems that they're on the descent for Heathrow and pass over at around 10,000 feet. They stop landing there about 11pm, but now the Stansted planes are being routed across here at night. And then there's the higher altitude stuff too I'm starting to wonder if the vapour trails and ice crystals are having an effect on seeing too. The skies were way better than this only a few years ago

I'm waiting to see what you can produce with your new mount too, and what I can get with your old mount. The day I bought it had the clearest night I'd seen in weeks, and then nothing nothing clear enough since. It has given me time to check it works with Astroberry though, which is another step in my imaging plans

Did a count from my back garden last weekend with my girlfriend. She counted 13 and I could only see 7. Not sure how we managed to get that difference. Skies here are apparently a Bortle 5, with the south having the worst view from light pollution

I've looked a couple of times, and zoomed in too. I can't see anything out of the ordinary with it. It's a good image to me

I would suspect a Starlink launch too. It doesn't look the plane trails I see here

It's an interesting idea, but I have concerns about practicality when they scale up especially the hold and release mechanism and release timing. If they get these wrong the results could be messy Scott Manley has produced a video about this too, and he raises a different set of questions.

There are some interesting ideas in there. I am especially intrigued about the harmonic drive with a compliant mechanism. I've had a vague plan for a while to print a star tracker, possibly with own software too, so might use some of this as a starting point

I think that's the one my girlfriend told me she'd seen. It was blue and white. I missed seeing them as the skies weren't great here so I stayed indoors

If anyone hasn't found it yet, live launch coverage here. Not long to go!

I did a little digging and it seems to be a quote from Roger Horchow in The Art of Friendship (https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6732.Roger_Horchow) Still no idea if it's genuine, but it seems that Bass himself objected to the tale even though he did seem to be on the talkative side (https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2000/december/living-legends-largemouth-bass/) As for Armstrong's humility, this quote from Neil Gaiman says a lot

An alternative to AllSkEye is Thomas Jacquin's Raspberry Pi based code, which is popular on SGL. It uses an ASI camera. Complete build instructions are here http://www.thomasjacquin.com/make-your-own-allsky-camera/ Or there's my own entry level code https://github.com/MarkGrimwood/Mognet-All-Sky-Camera-install (and SGL disussion thread https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/376932-another-all-sky-camera/)

Looks like most of the site was copied by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Not all of it is there though but might be worth a look https://web.archive.org/web/20110201223601/http://catamountsystems.com/

Once the US has got used to roundabouts, we've got some more fun stuff to export!

I'm another hybrid person, but when it comes to measuring or design work I stick with imperial measurements unless it comes to a persons height. Walking and driving distances are always miles or time I have noticed imperial measurements cropping up in odd places still. Looking at the original set models for the Harry Potter films at Leavesden I noticed that all the scales are imperial. Tthree eigths of an inch to the foot, or 1/32nd scale seems to be the common one

That same inconsitancy is applied to eyepieces too. 1.25 and 2 inch adaptors, but measured as 32mm, 25mm, etc in focal length.

I think we're going to need a bigger scope! Grinding a monolithic telescope of 200mm or more diameter could be a bit of a tricky prospect though

That would explain the use of Imperial measurements at the time. I never saw things at the PCB design stage, it was only the solder paste stencil design stage. Lots of comparing drawings on a lightbox and staring down measuring microscopes while calculating percentages in my head Sounds like the oil industry may be worse!

I used to work for a solder paste stencil manufacturer and the customer designs we received were always in imperial units. Pitches were measured in thousandths of an inch at the time, the finest pitch we'd usually see was 0.008" (I think) and occasionally an experimental 0.004" for one of the universities That was 25 years ago and I haven't kept up with the modern practices so they may have switched to metric now. Never questioned it at the time even though the UK was already mostly metric by then. Possibly a lot of designs originated in the US?