Category: Technology
Re: Auto Guiding
At 09:33 AM 3/17/2008 -0700, you wrote: >On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Jimbo S. Harris wrote: >>>My money, if I had any, would have burst into flame by now at […]
Redo from start: My Astrophotography Workflow
Hi, So with the failure of MaxDSLR to be a one-stop-shop to fix my astro-software needs, I’m doing a total rewind to figure out what it really is that I need to […]
Long Exposure Photography / Techniques / Technology
Re: Narrowband with DSLR
>I keep making attempts at narrowband imaging, but I haven’t been able to >make it stick yet; one downside to a DSLR is that you need 2” accessories, >and finding a filter […]
ASCOM help
http://www.proaxis.com/~sandstone/Astro//Scripts/dscope.html http://enzerink.net/peter/astronomy/pages/ascomvalidator.htm
ASCOM + Java
http://jeamy.werk1.at/jascom/ definitely Java, definitely free http://www.marcchamberlin.com/telescope/doc/help.html definitely Java, defninitely not sure if it’s free.
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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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