So what does it look like in the NFO Control Room with the 3-screen system running a high-resolution Hubble image screensaver?
Here is a fish eye view of my three-screen system up and running. Three superb Iiyama 24″ letterbox screens driven by an ATI Radeon 5770 card and one screen with a Sapphire (active) display port adapter from Overclockers U.K. I … Continue reading
I opened up the pinhole cameras a couple of days early just in case they were set in the wrong position, and also to check if the wettest November on record had made its mark. One pinhole camera unfortunately DID … Continue reading
On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will open up the two pinhole cameras on my south-facing wall, remove the exposed film, and replace with two new sheets of film. I will then leave the cameras open from 21st December 2009 … Continue reading
Well as the weather is not allowing me to take outer-space images, it’s back to some inner space work again. This time an opalescent beetle leg gets photomicrographed using a 23-frame focus stack put together using the Helicon Focus software. … Continue reading
Great day today (no – not the weather!) – put the side panels on the mini-WASP array, and Brian May sent me a copy of his new book “A Village Lost & Found”. This is a beautiful publication and you … Continue reading
To load up the Sky 90s 🙂
I bolted the mini-WASP telescope frame to the Paramount versa-plate to get a feel what the finished system will look like. The funny-looking device sticking out the front of the frame is a counterbalance arm for the weight of all … Continue reading
The modifications to the telescope frame have been carried out and I’ve just bolted all the furniture to it to check it all hangs together properly – fortunately, it does. The two open sides of the frame have now been … Continue reading
