A mere 57-years separates the era of the Pepper Ginders (the 3 Curta calculators) from the Trashcan (the 2013 Mac Pro).
Bit late this year cleaning off all the dirt, grime and pollen from the domes. Usually complete this job April/May. Here, sparkling in this blazing heat are the north dome (Micro-Dragonfly Array) with the side pods, and the south dome … Continue reading
Winter Solstice 2025 until Summer Solstice 2026 solargraph. You can just make out the two white fibreglass domes in the foreground.
A composite of 3 datasets taken of the Markarian Chain region.
Imaging the M44 (Beehive Cluster) with the 200mm lenses I came across this arachnid that had spun it’s web across the innermost stars of Cancer, perhaps hoping to catch some Bees.
I used all the Sky90 data and added to it the core data I took on the original Hyperstar with the little H9C OSC CCD. There was a noticeable improvement.
I’ve just been moaning to a good friend about how this hobby is becoming a pointless exercise – especially with the weather – and what do I do? I start a major re-configuration of the MiniWASP array. Why? Because a … Continue reading
And here’s the result of very nearly TEN DAYS continous, uniterrupted, flawless printing on the incredible ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus 3D printer. An incredible feat for such a low-priced large-volume printer. I don’t know how they do it – BUT … Continue reading
I have repaired the damaged pinhole of the drain-pipe pinhole camera ready for this Winter’s Solstice. The original pinhole itself was a pinhole in a disc-shaped piece of Aluminium foil. For some unknown reason, some unknown species of bird, took … Continue reading
This is the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus 3D printer printing out a Sierpinsky pyramid measuring 300mm on a base line. As you can see, with the brim, this is the maximum size of pyramid I can build on the baseplate. … Continue reading
