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Re: not sure it's all worth it
Art Morton wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Jimbo S. Harris wrote: > >> I’m more and more convinced that the Nikon is causing me more >> headache […]

Re: K3 Tools
Art Morton wrote: > How are you using this with a USB camera? > Very well, thank you. I plug the camera in (all the camera drivers are installed, of course), on […]

Gemini NMEA 0183 GPS info
http://www.psychologie.uni-regensburg.de/Zimmer/trafficresearch/NMEA0183/index.html http://home.mira.net/~gnb/gps/nmea.html#gprmc According to the Gemini manual, pp.85, “Gemini requires only the “Recommended Minimum” (RMC) NMEA 0183 sentence to be sent,” This is: $GPRMC,225446,A,4916.45,N,12311.12,W,000.5,054.7,191194,020.3,E*68 225446 Time of fix 22:54:46 UTC A Navigation […]

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 […]

ASCOM help
http://www.proaxis.com/~sandstone/Astro//Scripts/dscope.html http://enzerink.net/peter/astronomy/pages/ascomvalidator.htm

Re: DSC circuit – USB conversion?
Jimbo, Yes, there is an ASCOM driver for my interface. I’ve never actually written code to access it, so I don’t know the other side of the interface very well, but I […]

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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