It’s been about a year since my last report on this project, and that last article actually said very little 🙂 I am on the point of putting my hand in my wallet (you cannot begin to understand the amount of pain this gives me) to purchase the heart of the system – yes, I am very close to putting in an order for a Paramount. The grant I applied for at the beginning of the year didn’t come off, so I am going to have to find the not insubstantial amount of cash to build the mini-WASP myself – I guess you can hear the squeals of pain from wherever you are located. I have 2 x Sky 90s for imaging and a Megrez 80mm for the guide scope, I have one SXVF-M25C and the SXV guide camera – so I also need to purchase the latest SXVR-M25C for the second Sky 90. I only have one Robofocus, so a second Robofocus is needed for the second Sky 90. I won’t be getting the FSQ106 and H36 for the fourth slot in the head (for narrowband imaging) for quite some time. I need to see if I can use my small Pulsar dome to house this lot, otherwise the bigger dome will also be needed. Starting the slippery slope on the road to a mini-WASP array is clearly going to severely test my bank balance, that’s why it has been so long (2 years) since first discussing the project that I am finally coming to the point of getting the mount – this project is a huge committment. Well, it still might be just hot air – I haven’t “gone and done it” yet, but in a couple of weeks we’ll see if I finally took the plunge 🙂 Until then, I wish you clear skies – even if it has been pouring with rain for the whole of this past week!
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