PeterW

Impressive, I am getting some PPS soon, have some parts I want to make with it. Do you have a heated print volume? Peter

Given the regulatory nervousness of 3DP generally, I wouldn’t want to part with that sort of money. Just cos you can isn’t a good enough reason to do something. Gina, you need to buy one of those wood summerhouse things so you have space for a meter class monster.. maybe need a screw extruded and a mm class nozzle! https://www.e-ci.com/baam/ Peter

Great to hear! There are a few rules of thumb for ensuring holes have enough clearance and parts fit together without jamming, but generally the tolerance is pretty bang on. I knocked up a design for a spare mounting plate for a monopod head I have... can’t find any on the web, so might as well print one (tweak the thickness to ensure it’s really tough). Then I can “hot swap” binoculars more conveniently. PEter

Blackouts are those dark area that appear as you love your eye around. Ideally you won’t get any, some eyepieces are worse than others. Peter

Good luck, I hope your skies and scope can help the filter to deliver the goods. Peter

Interested to see how they perform regard eyerelief, blackouts and the are of viewing the whole field... I have a sinking feeling that I might need to get some in the medium future. Peter

Aha, fellow SCAD users! Parametric cad is much cleaner to know what you have than solidworks where you have to set relationships between things which invariably break. Change one value and the rest of the design changes. Of course you have to make your own fillets and threads. I have colleagues using Blender, a user interface made by a sadist! PEterW

How do you get that sticker about the clouds?! PEter

That counterweight will never work... you’ll find yourself drinking them and then the tracking will go to pot! Peter

Thanks, no manual supplied. I’ve now tightened to ball clamp. For £8 I will see how I go and might be asking Santa for a better one later on the year. Made using my 15x70 much easier and fun compared to a tripod and very portable too, which is a big plus. Peter

el cheapo trigger ball head and monopod for bin mounting. Seems to work very well on my ultralight camp seat... many thanks to @BinocularSky! PeterW

The hope is that the LED are better directed so spray less outwards to contribute to light pollution. Any filter that filters out light you don’t want is some help, but the days of totally killing the light pollution from orange low pressure sodium lights would seem to be over. Peter

Jan9 twitter post.. “SCHEDULE CHANGE - On Sunday, Jan 13th our latest episode will be broadcast at the later time of 10:40pm. We'll return to our normal slot in February.” Juat found out that they did a 3day stargazing live event in Australia last year, which none of us saw. Annoyed! PEter

Keep an eye on the listings! So we need to take bets on where they might be... USA (as autumnwatch was??) Not giving us a good prior warning means that local clubs cannot look to on events to help spread the word and engage more people. PEter

THought i recognised that dual cassegrain bin picture from the back of Harrington’s TOuring the Universe through Binculars. I’m about out to take delivery of a pair of commercial 70mm bins... easier to transport than some of the large creations here and avoids having to stretch ones DIY skills, though I bet the views through these big bins is worth the effort! PeterW

An 8kg reel will surely take a while to get through... save you collecting piles of “reel dogends”. Peter

ABS or ASA? Want a good weather resistant material! PEterW

Sad, given the performance of low light cams for giving you a sense of what a really good sky looks like. BBC4 “day in the life of the earth” had a great bit about meteor observing, wouldn’t mind knowing what camera they used for those meteor observing sections. its a challenge to keep the interest/engagement up with time, even the spring/autumn watch are needing to Innovate. We need something on an ongoing basis to keep enthusing the next generation going forwards. PEterW

A colleague loosened a heater cartridge once, temperature feedback then overcooked the heater and blew the control board... got to be careful. Peter

Currently the yanks are probably in the lead with BAAM unless one you fancies making a bigger one ? Wonder when we’ll see a big consumer machine that has a screw extruded on? PEter

Impressive! I am busy trying to wear Ultimaker 2+ out. Feedtubes and nozzles seem the only thing that need refreshing. Need to print yet more stuff! Peter

This seems to be guide with pictures and descriptions, the other one is a proper Atlas with stars and galaxies and stuff (missing some Sharpless ? interesting, Peter

:-)) Gain control is rather special for who have it. Another reason to get lost is that it’s harder to tell the relative brightness and red stars will appear brighter than by eye.. messing up asterisms. Peter

.... hope you have the filters on order and maybe a 3x multiplier lens as well?! You can enjoy the view already by going outside and holding a filter over the front lens (best if you are shaded from direct straylights/moon). With a transparent sky you will be treated to a view of some of the stars that have been “stolen” and maybe some nebulae too. Given you live closer to the square mile I’m not going to engage in a “my light pollution is worse than yours” competition! Welcome to the club! PEter

Just in time for my next dark trip! Rather fed up with frozen feet interrupting good observing sessions. These should put an end to that problem’ PEterW