First off a big thank you to Tom How for patiently walking me through how to configure his fantastic “synch” program to accommodate a second “slave” camera. Tom has written some very useful code that works with Maxim DL that … Continue reading
Here is a clip of Neil Armstrong at the Starmus Festival last year in Tenerife. For me it was an almost overwhelming experience being in the presence of the first man to walk on the Moon, and he appeared to … Continue reading
O.K. so last night I put a friend’s Sky 90 in place of the Sky 90 that continues to defy all my attempts at collimation and unbelievably it was clear at 9:00 p.m. Brilliant, too early to start imaging, but just … Continue reading
On YouTube. See the Paramount ME casually throw around over 90 pounds of kit as if it were weightless 🙂
If you don’t know what the Fermi paradox is, then it’s pretty pointless reading any further. For those that do know what the Fermi paradox is, then for what it’s worth, my belief up until 2 years ago was that … Continue reading
Here is the Type I Curta calculator that was sent from the States last week (arrived today after a week’s delay in Customs). This is an August 1956 version and is in near mint condition. Done a few multiplications … Continue reading
What’s really nice about the Curta calculator is that by thinking about the maths problem you want to solve in a logical manner you can minimise the number of handle rotations to calculate the answer. So for example, finding the … Continue reading
Gaze and weep at this engineering beauty. And remember, this was made in the days before CNC equipment!!! Arrived this morning, courtesy of E-Bay 🙂 🙂
Got today’s EPOD with the Algol/Rho Persei image from a while back 🙂 Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work from the New Forest Observatory.
Took this test image of the Vega region using both Sky 90s and both M26C cameras on the mini-WASP array. One camera is not as well set up (collimation, chip flatness) as the other, but I just wanted to see … Continue reading
