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    DIY Pier

    Swoop1 replied to dtastro's topic in DIY Observatories

    Looks very neat. The sort of thing I would like to build if I ever get the OK from Mrs Swoop. The hollows look like ideal rests for a nice cold beer when engaged in a bit of solar🍺
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    Is there clearance underneath to tighten a nut against the bottom of the plate to put the tension into the pin you need?
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    Thanks Miguel. Looks like I will have to buy some 2" filters then.
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    So, 2" filters? I can't acieve focus with the 1.25" adapter on the noseiece.
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    Very nice image Miguel. Where is your filter mounted? I ask as I have a 6300 and I can't mount a filter with my set up- my filters are 1.25"
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    What you need is one of those new fangled anti gravity widgets to stick to the OTA. Makes it float exactly where you want it. An alternative is to cap the open end of a Newt, or install a valve into the tube of a refractor, Schmidtt etc and fill it with helium......... I'll grab my coat on the way out.
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    Well done to all!
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    I'm watching this with interest......
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    I have an SW Explorer 150P and had similar issues with my Sony a350- couldnt achieve prime focus with a T ring inserting the tube into the draw tube on the focuser. I then found that if I unscrewed the nose piece off the T ring and did likewise with the focuser- unscrew the draw tube (if that is what the bit you insert the eyepiece into is called), I could screw what was left of the 1 1/4 EP adapter to the T ring and bingo- prime focus achieved.
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    This is going to be one serious obsy. Not envious. Not one little bit. Nope.
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    When you have an obsy with a warm room, is there a need to use the keyboard on the 'pooter whilst working? I ask as, with allyour use of LED strip, how about fashioning a strip of low power LED to act as a red light over the keyboard to further reduce dark adaptation being scuppered?
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    Thanks Gina, Having seen you latest batch of images, it makes sense now Miguel- Structural steel to take the roof weight without intermediate supports. Once your structure is clad, it could be 'Mini Me' of Kielder Observatory!
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    Form those of you not yet commited to your choice of warm room flooring, wouldnt commercial grade lino be tough enough? It would certainly withstand office chair rolling. Anything that survives the rigours of a special needs school has got to be up to warm room (and scope room) work.
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    That is one hell of a project you have going on there Miguel! Why the RSJ along one side of the car port section?
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    Maidenhead Astonomical Society
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    Sawdust and shavings are evidence of progress....
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    That is quite an elegant solve to the scope height conundrum. Allowing a taller door at that end with the shaped end wall profile- ?
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    A cunning plan? How cunning? As cunning as a fox whose just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
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    Your kids need to get their priorities right! They should be rushing home from work to feed you so that you can continue slaving away over your obsy build. Youth of today eh?
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    Get thee a light rigged up Kev. Even a work light on an extension lead. Lengthens the working day considerably!
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    I know it is adding jobs and expense to the list but, how a bout a little retractable awning above the window?
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    My new set up including the alpha to e mount adaptor
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    Today saw the arrival of a Sony lens mount adapter so I can use my a mount Tamron 70-300 zoom on my E mount Sony a6300. Should make for some better widefield images thatn I currently get with the kit lens.
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    Having seen the recent images, I now know where James got his inspiration from- Photo courtesy of NASA ?
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    Pete, Great news about the improvement in your outlook! Have you considered your local astronomy society? I think most have society owned scopes as loaners
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