Dang, well that's me convinced. If anyone's looking for me I'll be outside ripping my telescopes apart looking for the NASA image receiver.
January 26, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Dang, well that's me convinced. If anyone's looking for me I'll be outside ripping my telescopes apart looking for the NASA image receiver.
Good enough for polar alignment of wide field scopes. Long focal length ones, less so..
September 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Good enough for polar alignment of wide field scopes. Long focal length ones, less so..
To be fair, velcro and zip ties are pretty secure. Certainly more secure than 'push fit ' designs that rely on a single small thumb screw to keep equipment away from a terminal velocity meeting the concrete below.
September 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
To be fair, velcro and zip ties are pretty secure. Certainly more secure than 'push fit ' designs that rely on a single small thumb screw to keep equipment away from a terminal velocity meeting the concrete below.
Aye these are the stresses and strains of being ultra rich that us poor folk just never think about. Won't someone please think about the poor millbillionaires?!
July 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Aye these are the stresses and strains of being ultra rich that us poor folk just never think about. Won't someone please think about the poor millbillionaires?!
Technically most millionaires were at some point in time, 3 months away from becoming billionaires, but I'm splitting heirs.
July 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Technically most millionaires were at some point in time, 3 months away from becoming billionaires, but I'm splitting heirs.
As for the Linn.. I'll need to dig through a cupboard to find it. I'll call once I'm ready to get both to you. Good to know where I can take them.
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
As for the Linn.. I'll need to dig through a cupboard to find it. I'll call once I'm ready to get both to you. Good to know where I can take them.
Hold that thought. It's started working again. (Long ago my late grandfather who was an electrical engineer, used to laugh at customers who said "it's repaired itself".) His bugbear was the great 'Intermittent fault '🫣
May 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Hold that thought. It's started working again. (Long ago my late grandfather who was an electrical engineer, used to laugh at customers who said "it's repaired itself".) His bugbear was the great 'Intermittent fault '🫣
I'm quite sure that your good news is in no way related to that weather bad news.
May 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I'm quite sure that your good news is in no way related to that weather bad news.
Just wait till you're in your 50's. Actually no it's just more of that.
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just wait till you're in your 50's. Actually no it's just more of that.
Even cats were thinner in bygone decades...
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Even cats were thinner in bygone decades...
I'm afraid I passed over to the dark side some time ago and paid for pixinsight. Now I'm kind of committed to it though I miss using SIRIL a lot. Real time views of changes -sigh. The good old days.
April 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I'm afraid I passed over to the dark side some time ago and paid for pixinsight. Now I'm kind of committed to it though I miss using SIRIL a lot. Real time views of changes -sigh. The good old days.
If you look at it a certain way.... The cock and balls nebula.
April 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you look at it a certain way.... The cock and balls nebula.
Better than those foreign clouds, coming over here and raining on good Scottish folk's heads.
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Better than those foreign clouds, coming over here and raining on good Scottish folk's heads.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.
April 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.
I suppose I'd miss out on super-lucky captures like this one I got on the 28thMarch. Rather proud of it. OK, I'll keep the Lunt.. for now.
April 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I suppose I'd miss out on super-lucky captures like this one I got on the 28thMarch. Rather proud of it. OK, I'll keep the Lunt.. for now.
Hmm food for thought, cheers mate. Sounds like better bang for buck than adding a double stack to my Lunt.
April 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hmm food for thought, cheers mate. Sounds like better bang for buck than adding a double stack to my Lunt.
Brill thanks. Starting to wish I'd gone down the scope and quark eyepiece route rather than the all-in-one Lunt. Then I could probably have just swapped the eyepiece for a SHG. Component systems always offer more flexibility!
April 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Brill thanks. Starting to wish I'd gone down the scope and quark eyepiece route rather than the all-in-one Lunt. Then I could probably have just swapped the eyepiece for a SHG. Component systems always offer more flexibility!
I'm just waiting for some mug...cough,cough.. some discerning audiophile to buy my Slee, and then I'll pick up a Moon. Just warn me please if it's about to go up in price!😬
April 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'm just waiting for some mug...cough,cough.. some discerning audiophile to buy my Slee, and then I'll pick up a Moon. Just warn me please if it's about to go up in price!😬
Cheers. How quickly can a full image be acquired? With my Lunt, I often leave it to capture a sequence every 20 seconds or so, so I can build up a movie of solar action over several hours. Would that be feasible with a spectroheliograph?
April 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Cheers. How quickly can a full image be acquired? With my Lunt, I often leave it to capture a sequence every 20 seconds or so, so I can build up a movie of solar action over several hours. Would that be feasible with a spectroheliograph?
Ok scrub that I've looked it up. Wow. Looks like a completely different learning curve to HA imaging. But spec's seem to be cheaper to buy than ha scopes with better images across a range of bandwidths. So why buy a solar solar HA scope? Should I just sell my Lunt and buy one of these badboys?
April 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ok scrub that I've looked it up. Wow. Looks like a completely different learning curve to HA imaging. But spec's seem to be cheaper to buy than ha scopes with better images across a range of bandwidths. So why buy a solar solar HA scope? Should I just sell my Lunt and buy one of these badboys?
So I take it a spectroheliograph is basically just a solar scope with knobs on? More specifically knobs to alter the bandwidth?
April 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So I take it a spectroheliograph is basically just a solar scope with knobs on? More specifically knobs to alter the bandwidth?