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Astro knowledge / Blog / General
A night of thrashing
One reason that I like to leave my equipment all set up and ready to go is because it seems like it takes a couple of nights for the gear to all […]
Astro knowledge / Blog / Gear / General / Maintenance / Observing Reports / Techniques / Telescope
Back to basics.
I used to be good at this. Omg, gaggle of geese flying over. Local dogs wigging out. But, I digress. I got Really good at planetary, but had higher hopes, and this […]
up to date. whew!
OK, as of today, I now have all of my “historical” astronomy entries plugged into the blog! Now I just need to move over all of the stuff from jimbo.net/astro and I […]
Welcome to FlatPress!
This is a sample entry, posted to show you some of the features of FlatPress. The more tag allows you to create a “jump” between an excerpt and the complete article. [more] […]
Blog / Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography / Observing Reports
rework of the astro page, also new photos, and go look at the moon
Hi, I think that we can all agree that the “Deep Sky Astrophotography” page on the website was getting pretty ponderous — even with a fast ‘net connection, it was taking me […]
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Polar Alignment Calculations
Here’s a page that derives Polar Alignment Calculations. (update 5/2020: the original site is gone, so I found the text on Wayback and am inserting it below. This is by the original […]
Gear / Observatory / Telescope
Special Guest Star takes the mount at Hilltop O
The Astro Jedi needed somewhere to store his light sab—- I mean, bucket, and I was only too happy to accommodate him. I have decided that I need to come to a […]
General / Maintenance / Observatory
Dome shutter is motorized again!
I finally decided to bite the bullet and fix the shutter motor. Things went sideways last winter, and I’ve been opening the shutter manually (and tying it shut with rope, so we […]
Trixie 2017 – tube mods
I finally got around to cutting the MTA-UTA tubes to length; the only eyepiece that would come to focus with the focuser spacer in place is the Televue 55mm Plossl. If I […]
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Observatory
Observatory 2.0 – Time has come today!
General / Maintenance
First Light, a deeper look
Mount / Observatory / Telescope
Observatory 2.0 – Result!
Observatory
Observatory 2.0 – The Pier goes in
Gear / General / Maintenance
Martin Farmer Wormblock installation notes
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
NGC2244, The Rosette Nebula
Deep Sky / Long Exposure Photography
Another beautiful night.