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
Took a look outside around 11:00 p.m. to see that we had really nice clear skies – that was unexpected. Can’t let a clear sky go to waste so I went out for an evening’s work tuning up the mini-WASP … Continue reading
Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice. So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading
I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image. Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂
I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion. PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount. As I want to be able … Continue reading
Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit. Rectified … Continue reading
