With the current weather I have not been able to set up the repaired M25C for any imaging and I am aware of the days ticking past with nothing new to add 🙁 Still, this gives me a little time … Continue reading
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It was great to have Simon Parkin and the Meridian TV crew visit the New Forest Observatory – they are a very professional outfit and they make live broadcasting appear so easy! So once again, the familiar shape of the … Continue reading
Keep an eye on Meridian News & Weather tonight from 6:00 p.m. onwards as you should see the New Forest Observatory and me discussing the Perseid meteor shower. There may be a cameo appearance by Louey the black Labrador as … Continue reading
I went over to what I thought was going to be a “dark” bit of the forest around 10:00 p.m. last night and got worse sky glow on the horizon (from Southampton) than I get in my back garden. So … Continue reading
After a completely overcast day the cloud began to break up around 5:00 p.m. and now (9:00 p.m.) it looks like we might actually have a reasonably clear night. Whooppeeeeeeeeee – I’m off over the forest with the AstroTrac Canon … Continue reading
Starlight Xpress returned the repaired CCD via Special Delivery just after lunchtime today! I re-fitted it to the Hyperstar III and ran off a bias frame – Tom How confirms it now looks o.k. and we’re once again hot to … Continue reading
Looking back over the images taken it appears that the cooler failed on January 17th 2010 – so nowhere near as long ago as I thought, and it wasn’t at the time the PSU went down. The number of hot … Continue reading
My M25C one-shot colour camera had an open circuit Peltier cooler (see post below). Packed it and shipped it off Recorded Delivery yesterday (Monday) around 1:00 p.m. Just got a mail from Michael Hattey 4:30 p.m. today (Tuesday) that it’s … Continue reading
Today it was brought home to me just how dangerous it is to work on your own in this imaging business. Tom How is a local guy and an imaging expert, and we only recently realised that we hadn’t met up … Continue reading
