Monthly Archives: August 2011

Tom How’s Patented dome rotation system :)

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Greg Parker

Today Tom How fitted and ran a fully automated dome rotation system to the Pulsar Observatories mini-WASP dome.  You can see a video of the system in operation HERE. You will see the telescope array deliberately slewed using the joystick … Continue reading →

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Blistering hot day here at the NFOs

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Greg Parker

This is the view from my study on this blistering hot Wednesday – it’s now coming up to 5:00 p.m. and it’s still too hot to do anything sensible indoors or outdoors.  Managed to fit a solid-state magnetic compass in … Continue reading →

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IOM August 2011 – the Sadr region in Cygnus

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Greg Parker

We are just about to enter the longer evenings where we can once again return to getting some decent quality deep-sky images.  To be frank, it never really gets dark enough to do good work for all of June, and … Continue reading →

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