Anyone who has a #SkyShedPOD, you should know that Bart (CRM creator and maker) and Owen (Bart's biz partner - Admin - Production, etc.) were in a car wreck on the way home from the shop late on Wednesday night. They are in critical condition.

But I crossed my own line and submitted a reference image of the inside of my #SkyShedPOD to playground.com to see what it would come up with. Both are below. I don't know what those 🔭 are that it invented, but I think I would be jazzed to own them! Would you use this #AstroRig?

Need more 🔭 #SkyShedPOD name votes, please!

It's almost done. The SkyShed POD-S with automated POD/Dome control. skyshedpod-s.com 🫛🔭🦛

Come on, dude. The snow is gone. Time to open the #SkyShedPOD!

#spacecat #cat Mac making demands.

Technical details are:

57 x 30s subs
#ZWO #ASI2600MC OSC @ 0deg C
#SVBONY #SV503 100mm/f7 with 0.8X FF/FR
#PegasusAstro Focus Cube
@skywatcherusa.bsky.social #EQ6RPro Mount
#SkyShedPOD Personal Observation Dome
#NINA #Siril #GIMP

Under normal circumstances, I would appreciate a few hours of green because I have a #SkyShedPOD to hold all my gear. But it's all sealed up for winta' right now and no way I'll be ready to do anything with it by Monday.

Maybe it will be a #Seestar night.

One glorious minute of my #SkyWatcher #EQ6R mount proving that it can still slew after being asleep for five months in the #SkyShedPOD AstropotamuPOD.  Yay!!! 🔭 #Astrophotography will happen on the next clear night!

Since my gear is in a #SkyShedPOD I never take pictures of it while imaging. But I do have some Wyze cams with #Thingino custom firmware on them that monitor everything, including one on the mount to "see what the scope sees." You've just inspired me to start saving those images.

Nice shots!

Do you have some web cams that you want to ditch the cloud services for and just have them be (among other things) RTSP streams? Check out thingino.com. Works great on Wyze Cam V3 and Wuuk cameras (and a few dozen others)! I use these to monitor my #SkyShedPOD and #Astrorig! 🔭

Wide angle shot makes the CW bar look huge, but I got the #SkyShedPOD opened today to air out a bit! No bugs in plugs that I could find. Need to bring the power supplies back out and rewire some cables and I might actually be imaging this week! 🔭🚀❤️

Ah. Cool. I'm not much of a podcast person because my work commute is five minutes, I don't have a job that I can listen to stuff while I work, and I have a home life when I get home. Maybe in spring while I'm setting up the #SkyShedPOD, I'll check it out.

Tell us more! I have a #SkyShedPOD that I love. What's yours?

Want to see my #Coronado #SolarMax II Solar Telescope (the gold one) as it moves to find the #Sun? Just watch youtube.com/shorts/Nkn9O...

Bonus: The #SVBONY SV503 is the white one, and you can see the inside of my #SkyShedPOD!

Hello, fellow #Astrophotography 🔭 people! I need your help naming my #SkyShedPOD. I've got five (or six) contenders. Anyone care to vote?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/sHCIg5/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Cobblestone Observatory
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/sHCIg5/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Astrotarium or The Astroquarium (tie)
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/sHCIg5/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Fallout Shelter or AstroVault (tie)
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/sHCIg5/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Sky Fortress

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My 🚀Cosmic Lens🔍 #Discord server is slowly starting to take shape! There's not a lot of furniture yet, but you're welcome to make yourself at home! All topics #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Cosmology #Space and #Science in general, as well as #3Dprinting, #SkyShedPOD and even #Wine and #Beer! 💻🔭🦛

#Space #Cat Mac, guarding the #SkyShedPOD from the snow.

*sigh* Finally feeling well enough after my surgery to go see what's in the #SkyShedPOD (last time I was out there was pre-Thanksgiving). And this is what greets me today. No #Astrophotography for me.

This is almost the same as my #SkyShedPOD. 😀

Cosmic Entity -> Light -> Telescope -> Camera / Sensor -> Computer -> Siril -> ASTAP -> StarNet -> GraxPert -> GIMP -> BlueSky

That's the path that my #Astrophotography images take to get posted here. Here's where it all starts for me, my #SkyShedPOD.

The 16" is really only a marginal improvement over the 14" but the 14" is a massive improvement over my 8". And I want the mount and tripod because I'm running out of space in my #SkyShedPOD so I need to be able to put this on the lawn! 😀

NGC 7789, Caroline's Rose Cluster. Printing this on metal for the birthday of a friend named Caroline. This was my first image obtained by gathering light from multiple sessions on different nights. #SVBONY SV503 102mm/f7 0.8X FF/FR and #ZWO #ASI2600MC with #Siril and #GIMP taken from #SkyShedPOD

All of this is on top of an #ADM side-by-side mount adapter which is attached to the @skywatcherusa.bsky.social #SkyWatcher #EQ6R Pro mount.

All inside the #SkyShedPOD XL5.

I know right? I used to leave mine out under a TG365 cover all year until I got the #SkyShedPOD. There's some irrelevant minor rust on some of the tripod screws and the CW bolts but it's a tank!

" We were very happy to hear that they have released Bart from hospital and he's resting at home. Which means he's going in the right direction. :) "

#SkyShedPOD