Truncating a Telescope
So the conclusion of my experimentation with the 10″ F/4.7 on the NEQ6 is too long, too heavy. So it’s off the mount, being replaced by my 8″ SCT with…
Quick look at M42 In Orion
A quick session tonight getting my telescope back up and running after the frigid weather this winter caused some issues with the cabling. Now I have move all of the…
First look at Centaurus A
Since the weather outside is frightful I decided to take an image of a Southern galaxy not visible in Winnipeg using iTelescope 59 in Siding Springs, Australia, a 20″ F/6.8…
INDI-Allsky Software Review
A New Allsky Camera Application By Gord Tulloch Over the last few years I have been using the Thomas Jaquin (TJ) allsky camera software with great success, as have several…
Happy New Year and Best Wishes for a Sunny 2023!
Thought I’d share this amazing eclipse image with you by Robin Leadbeater (http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/astro/spectra_27.htm) using a Star Analyzer at a total eclipse in Turkey in 2006. I’m working on a solar…
Kiln Controller Progress
Well that was easy, the kiln-controller software installed on a base Astroberry Server image no problem at all, simulation working just fine. I like Astroberry because it has a very…
Wow, this is unusual!
Everyone else is getting horrible weather and Winnipeg is getting some clear nights who’d have thunk it?
Observing Report Dec 20 2022
Time: 17:40- CDTTelescope: ES102mm on NEQ6Camera: ASI294MC w/ L-ENHANCESeeing: PoorTransparency: PoorTemp: -24C to -26CWeather: Clear sky Testing to see how observatory works in -25C weather. After dusting off the roof…
Moon Occults Mars
Totally the wrong kind of telescope to use (a wide field rather than lots of magnification) but hey, I captured Mars disappearing behind the moon, pretty cool 🙂