DaveL59

could give it a go, or rather would except for total clouds here. Will try it in the day tho and see. My 8-24 is the huge SVbony one but I do also have their 7-21mm so will see what they give.

no prob, if you have a zoom you could give it a go and see just holding it just above the drawtube end. Might get lucky. I can't really offer to test as the old vintage scope is a frac and has a pretty long drawtube so I can hit focus with either size even with a diagonal in the train. With the TAL-1 and M with the older 32mm eyepieces you'd have to fit the barlow to use 1.25's as they couldn't focus without unless you shifted the mirror so could be similar with the older 0.956's vs 1.25

you'd need to consider if there's enough travel to reach focus as the 1.25 to 0.965 adapter will place the eyepiece and the nosepiece outside the end of the focuser drawtube. Quite possible that there won't be enough in-travel in which case you either need to swap the focuser or move the mirror up the tube (longer screws/springs maybe). HTH PS - it may work OK with a barlow in front but then you're pushing the mag a bit far for the scope?

As I'd mentioned before, can't believe on a ship that cost billions they cheaped out fitting non-redundant sensors, but then Boing have a track record here...

and the banks of flashing lights on the front panel so you knew "the machine" was doing something, perhaps even be able to tell it was stuck in a loop.

yeah, wonder if they sorted all the glitches with the capsule/crew module from its run up to the ISS a while back or is this the second proving flight for it? Am curious too if/how they've tested this abort/escape thing or is it a case of crossed fingers if/when they ever do need it.

oh yeah a truly versatile device, tho I didn't try this on the big IBM system printer we had on the System-34

Oh I remember those too, used to punch my own cards back then. Lets also not forget the teletype terminals with paper tape punch and readers 😉

didn't pick up the briefing session yesterday but seems it Should Launch Saturday Artemis 1 moon mission is 'go' for Saturday launch, NASA says | Space They've decided its a faulty sensor and sounds like they'll ignore it in the lead up to launch. Leak is apparently fixed and the crack in the foam is known risk. Surprised they didn't drop someone down on a rope with some of that spray foam filler to fill the gap 😉

sounds like one of the ultra-wide screens I've seen at client sites, 34-37 inch wide but regular height. Great option to having dual or triple monitors per person in some ways. Was almost tempted to get one myself for the home office/desk but in the end went for dual 24-inch HD curved ones. That way I can switch one to the work laptop and retain a display for the home PC (well in fact 2 remain on the home PC as I now have 3 screens 😉 )

I believe its a DX102 starsense from other posts, so a basic Alt-AZ on a tripod. Likely no pillar attachment available for that so a case of extending the tripod legs or sitting lower.

thing is what could they do if you did hail them. Unless you could bring them aboard to travel on with you they're still stuck and of course by the time you've caught them up they're probably already way out of date in terms of tech and social/cultural ways. Unless of course you mean hailing them in the Klingon style? 😉

There's a number of height adjustable stools out now, this thread may help: There are also a number of wood height adjustable chairs or some use an ironing chair for this purpose.

It's a bit involved but I used a piece of steel bracket cut to shape after drilling out the hole to suit the central hinge. Ally would be easier but I figured steel would be stronger. Skiming the original arm to reduce it for the steel to overlap I just used a file, not ideal but worked. Bolting the 2 parts together at the overlap I had suitable taps already, epoxy in the join to keep things secure and keep moisture out. Been a while not and still working well. Best to remove the occular element and carrier from the arm tho to protect it from the metal swarf and filings. I guess another way would be to make the steel part and cut it and the arm to butt together in the right alignment, then fix a plate (over/under/both sides) to join them. Won't look as neat but should work.

not seen that Mark but I can't recall seeing a deselect option either. In some ways its a shame they didn't fit the cradle with fine-tune adjustments like we have with RDF/finders so we can get it truly zero'd in to target but then I guess they figure it should be close enough on-screen.

yeah probably, such is life huh

according to the beeb, Should Launch Someday will be going up Saturday in a 2-hour windows from 19:17 BST Artemis: Nasa will try to launch Moon rocket on Saturday - BBC News Wonder if with the sky getting darker we'll see it pass over us at all?

ahh ok, so the arm has snapped, not as easy a fix but can be done if you've a mind to do it:

I'd worry tho about deep freezing, organics decay even when frozen, albeit a lot slower, but 1000 years, who knows what we'd be defrosting at the end...

so listening to that session it makes me wonder, they only have single sensors per engine to verify this chill-down phase. Also tricky to try replace them on the pad so they're gonna work the data to determine if they're ok or not. Were Boing building these, sounds like a common theme here, no? Lets hope they've at least a backup sensor in critical systems - this part is considered test rather than flight so corners cut I guess. Can't imagine tho that 4 extra sensors would cost more than aborting a launch.

Scrub was in part the chill-down and also a vent valve issue so the view seems to be to sort the valve issue, start the chill-down of engines earlier in the session and push launch out to saturday 3rd. Also questioning the fidelity of the sensors monitoring the chill-down, esp re engine 3 that has a longer pipe run in the manifold than the other 3 engines

do you mean the eyepiece arm? Should just be a case of refit and tighten up the large central screw or has that gone AWOL?

oops seems its 23:00 BST, countdown says 51 mins, assuming of course it doesn't go to hold at 40 😉

so I guess your "seeing" got a bit out of focus by the end too then 😉

defo a step up, the moons look much better focused in this one 🙂