I have reproduced below an e-mail conversation from a rather persistent fellow representing a very well known Publisher. For obvious reasons the Publisher’s name is crossed out as is the guy I’m having the conversation with – but all the … Continue reading
Last night I managed to finish off setting up the 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses and their M26C Trius OSC CCDs. The new Trius just needed a tiny tweak to get it perfectly flat to the imaging train. That … Continue reading
It was a beautiful clear Moonless night last night (we don’t get very many of those in a year) and instead of imaging I was setting up 🙁 These things unfortunately need to be done, shame it was under almost … Continue reading
The money from the Post Office Savings Account is now finally back in my Lloyds Bank account having spent 1 week and 3 days in limbo. This was not resolved by the Post Office finally seeing sense and getting their … Continue reading
Tom How has lots of variations of camera synchronisation software for budding mini-WASP imagers. Check out details here: http://astro.neutral.org/software/multiple-camera-sync-ccdSoft-TheSkyX.html
So did the Post Office finally come to their senses and sort things out to my satisfaction then?? Did they hell. This is what happened. Last week I wrote a letter to the local newspaper spelling out the sick joke … Continue reading
The short answer to this age-old question is that it does. To see how it does you unfortunately need to read what comes below. However – what I find much more interesting is why we have difficulty in understanding what … Continue reading
So where were we on this nonsense? Oh yes, last Monday I went into the Post Office at Lymington with my passport and a statement from Southern Electric (just received, so within 2 months) which were copied and certified (for … Continue reading
One of my most precious possessions is an original document – Grey Owl’s farewell to the children of the British Isles. It dates from 1937 and it has something very important to say about fox hunting, something the Conservative Party … Continue reading
You probably didn’t think things could possibly get any worse didn’t you – I certainly thought that – absolutely no bloody chance. So this morning I logged onto my Post Office account (I couldn’t even do that on Friday) and … Continue reading
