Although I cannot use the Altair finder as a guidescope as intended, I can still bolt it onto the top of the array with the video camera. I can then use this for the occasional polar alignment check, or to … Continue reading
Well although I was clouded out last night I still managed to image asteroid 2012 DA14 through the thinnest part of the cloud 🙂 A single solitary one-minute exposure as the asteroid was moving through Draco at 22:51. The planetarium … Continue reading
Well as predicted – the only way I’m actually seeing the little blighter is via the live feeds. Sky clear while Meridian weather did their live piece from here, even got the mini-WASP array focused up and ready to go … Continue reading
An unexpectedly clear night last night – spent all the time working on the Hyperstar – managed to get about 90% of the way there in setting it up, next outing should see it imaging again 🙂 So what are … Continue reading
How can we protect our whales and at the same time put destructive nuclear devices to good use? I propose strapping tactical nuclear devices to our larger whales that have an acoustic sensor to pick up the whale’s heartbeat. Heartbeat … Continue reading
There is a large circular emission nebula in the head of Orion centred on Meissa. This huge H-alpha region lies just above Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and actually spans the region between those two stars – so this is a huge … Continue reading
This is the Carbon star 4-Omicron 1 Orionis which lies close to Aldebaran in the constellation Orion. SAO94176 has a magnitude of 4.71 and so is naked eye from a reasonably dark site. This is a mini-WASP array image using … Continue reading
I fitted an Orion finder/guider scope to the top plate of the mini-WASP array today. Well it was raining and I had nothing better to do. However there is a purpose in the madness. I will simply swap the guide … Continue reading
All I wanted to do was drill and tap 4 holes in the top plate of the mini-WASP array to take a dovetail fitting that will hold an Orion finder/guider scope. 4 holes drilled, three tapped when the tap broke … Continue reading
