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Deep Sky / Gear / General / Long Exposure Photography / Techniques / Technology
what a night
Yesterday afternoon, I industriously cleaned all my camera optics (CCD, MPCC both sides, IDAS-LPS both sides), and was convinced that this would be good for my flat field. More on this later. […]
shortest possible drawtube?
A, In order that I can use my scope for either visual or photo, I have this long-ass drawtube. It’s racked in for the camera, racked out for the eyepieces, everything works, […]
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Re: Soul Nebula is too big too
Art Morton wrote: > Did you say TAK 106 …. dididid I here 106 I have a nice 66mm / 400mm ED refractor that should do the job; I picked it up […]
shortest possible drawtube?
Hi Ron, Now that I’m all comfy with how the Moonlite focuser works in my photography setup, I’m ready to start tuning the drawtube length / extension so that I can stay […]
Maintenance / Observing Reports / Optics
Re: RA driftage
Art Morton wrote: > All three of these images are fantastic and show that you are tuning > in. In either case here, your optics are quite good. The stars are > […]
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Re: Fwd: [vc200l] Best FWHM with VC200L
Art Morton wrote: > J, > > You have this issue. Maybe this is the nature of the beast. I have > sent you my FWHM and they seem to approach the […]
ATM / Maintenance / Observing Reports
Leaving myself in a "broken" state is not good
It’s supposed to be 90° tomorrow. Given past years, I’m expecting about 2 or 2.5 more months of clear before the rainy season. I’m just in “no working telescopes” mode at the […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M104, The Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo
Finally! A Virgo galaxy. I’ve had some kind of mental block about shooting in Virgo, so I finally forced myself to shoot down here. M104 is on the edge of being too […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M81, Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
Like M42 is a “tester” object for winter, M81 is a tester object for the spring. It’s big and bright and there’s lots of detail to bring up. In addition, if well-framed, […]
Deep Sky / Gear / Long Exposure Photography
M82, Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major
This is a “freebie” version of M82. It was way off in the badly vignetted border of the above M81 images (M81 was centered). But once I applied flat frames to the […]
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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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Another beautiful night.