exploits and adventures in astronomy from rural Bedfordshire
Back down in sunny Dorset for a couple of days (and actually, it was beautifully sunny!) and I remembered to bring my Canon DSLR with me. So I whizzed down to Portland Bill just in time for the sunset…. Just made it! And the little band of cloud made a nice atmospheric picture! Then, after...
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Still not managed to get out and complete the polar alignment in the observatory – the weather has been it’s usual August pants! More cloud and rain than you could shake a stick at for the last few weeks, and the coming week shows a partial potential for Sunday 6th. AAG Cloudwatcher So, in...
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Finally the calendar and clouds came together to give a clear night on a weekend to allow me to get some of the set up in the observatory done… I updated SGP, but PHD and the rest were OK, although a new version of EQASCOM is available so I will do that at some point....
"First clear night in ages, and work commences!"Continue reading
I did mention that I had been playing with Sequence Generator Pro – and it is a great piece of software. Easy to use and does what it says on the tin! What more can you ask for!! OK, it’s not a Maxim, but at a 5th of the price, I’m not expecting it to...
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So, one of the queries I had with the new AtikOne was if would produce a flat field on the ED80 – otherwise it would need a field flattener… Well, pleased to say that after measuring an image from the setup, it appears that a flattener is not required! Good news indeed 🙂 Here is...