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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: November 2014

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Size of my windows platform: 44" (110cm) x 22" (50cm) x 16" (44cm). Maybe I could try to find an electronic dry cabinet instead of tailor made a regular wooden cabinet, the price should be quite similar? Some of the size of my gears:. Tele Vue Ranger: minimum length = 42cm. Should have enough room.

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: Sky Adventurer dual axis guiding

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Sky Adventurer dual axis guiding. The Sky Adventurer features a ST4 style guiding port which allows RA guiding, but that also means it only correct PEC. The DEC part is manual driven only, so we couldn't guide in a dual axis way. Motorizing the DEC part is the first step, here we have two approaches:.

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: June 2015

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Thursday, June 04, 2015. It's a Chinese Windows 8.1 tablet, featuring a OTG port. I have tested last night, ASI 130mc could be used without problem. However, Lu070m failed probably due to insufficient power from the OTG port. A powered USB hub should work, but I got to test again. Installation Notes of ASCOM platform:. Finally,...

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: October 2014

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Thursday, October 30, 2014. The moon is in front of my windows. Aligned my C5 on the Nexstar mount, I found millions of drop frames. reboot does not help, replacing the USB cable does not help. Eventually, the camera even black out. This is my Lu055M being repaired:-. It seems like that Lu055M is dying? Monday, October 27, 2014.

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: January 2015

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Monday, January 26, 2015. Very poor sky tonight, just for fun. First shot C5 at prime focus:-. The rest with 2x barlows:-. Poor seeing and transparency. 20150126 Sun, also testing of Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L (first generation) on H-alpha imaging. Thank God that I can get another Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L finally. Very fine det...

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: Dedicated Guidescope?

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Friday, April 24, 2015. I am thinking about the need of a guidescope which is important for astrophotography. Remember the good old days, my friend used a FS60C and Sky90 in that way with great success. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. A large piece of glass! Testi...

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: A large piece of glass!

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Thursday, April 30, 2015. A large piece of glass! 70mm refractor on the left and 300mm f2.8 lens on the right. as an amateur astronomer, we all love aperture! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. A large piece of glass! My very first autoguiding exercise.

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: Further downsizing: Skywatcher Sky Adventurer

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Further downsizing: Skywatcher Sky Adventurer. This is a huge move again. First of all, the tripod that I'm going to use is a Velbon mini-white. It is ultra-portable as you can see from the above picture on the right. It can even sneak within a lens compartment of my Fastpack 350! Lower right: a Canon...

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: March 2015

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Monday, March 30, 2015. When you have more barlows lens than eyepieces. When you have more barlows lens than eyepieces, that means you're more a high resolution imaging person than a visual person. Solar, lunar and planetary. Wide field and deep sky imaging is more like a dream. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Saturday, March 28, 2015.

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics: February 2015

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Oldfield's Observation Log and Astronomy Topics. Welcome to my astronomy blog, I dedicate myself to the simplest form of amateur astronomy which requires only portable equipments. Friday, February 13, 2015. I got no time to shoot that extraordinary long filament. but it's not yet gone completely, so I caught the chance today. The sky was full of scattering cloud. Let's begin with 5x shots first:-. This monster prominence taken at 2400mm is bigger than Jupiter in size! And then we have AR2282 in close up:-.