Today the TS 80mm triplet APO (with flattener) arrived after ordering from Bern at Modern Astronomy – great service Bern, now let’s see what this little scope can do 🙂 On the back of the TS 80mm is an M26C … Continue reading
I have two desktops and a single laptop connected up to three M26C cameras in the mini-WASP observatory. I fired up Tom How’s synchronisation program to make sure it can control 3 cameras o.k. – it did of course. Next … Continue reading
I have returned the faithful old M25C to the Hyperstar and taken the new M26C into the mini-WASP observatory (North dome) awaiting the arrival of the TS 80mm triplet APO. Expect rain and cloud for at least the next 6 … Continue reading
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
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 🙂
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
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
Whilst working on the mini-WASP array last night I took a quick image of a reasonably bright star with the one good scope and camera. The central star is Kappa Cassiopeia and the two open clusters above it are NGC … Continue reading
