How many of you can put your hands up and say that if your hard disk gets damaged or stolen today, will you have enough backups to recover everything you want to? Or will you loose all the images you've work so hard on, except for the jpgs on your website?
A happy chance has lead me to acquiring an Astrodon SII narrowband astrophotography filter for a very low price.
I've now got the replacement IR filter for my Canon 350D DSLR camera. Last night Pete and I did the filter swap.
It is over two years since I published my results concerning the breakthrough modifications to a SC long exposure toucam webcam which finally cured all the problems relating to amp glow.....
Direct bias amp off modification for long exposure webcams
Direct bias amp off modification for long exposure webcams
With all the discussion about filters lately, you'll be suprised to discover I've purchased another narrowband filter. I can't afford additional Astrodon narrowband CCD camera filters, but I can afford the Baader prices.
Using my prefered astronomy supplier, Bern at Modern Astronomy, I've got hold of one of the Baader OIII CCD Filters. These are specifically for CCD imaging and they block in the IR, unlike the popular visual filters, where cost is saved on the IR side of things because humans can't see in the infra red.
Using my prefered astronomy supplier, Bern at Modern Astronomy, I've got hold of one of the Baader OIII CCD Filters. These are specifically for CCD imaging and they block in the IR, unlike the popular visual filters, where cost is saved on the IR side of things because humans can't see in the infra red.
For years I've had an old LXD55 mount - most folks laugh when they hear about my mount - but I've made it do most of the things I want it to do. I've just dug up some comments I made in 2006 relating to periodic error that I'd like on the web, so i'll put them here.
They relate to a "magical" adjustment that I made to my mount that gave a large improvement to the autoguiding and tracking and periodic error of my LXD55 mount.
They relate to a "magical" adjustment that I made to my mount that gave a large improvement to the autoguiding and tracking and periodic error of my LXD55 mount.
30/08: New Toy Alert: Canon 350D
I finally got fed up of my Fugi Finepix A120 and puchased a new camera. I've frequently found myself getting frustrated at not getting nice terrestial photos - I'm forever snapping pictures of things in the workshop, observatory, or when I'm out and about, and whilst the A120 has been super-reliable and a good performer, it was time to upgrade
