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Observing Report 9th-10th September 2009 (More Jupiters)

Posted by on September 13th 2009 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports
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After spending a good four hours refining the drift-alignment of my pier-mounted scope and then grabbing a load of PEC data using PERecorder, I had a few minutes left to grab some frames of Jupiter before it went out of my field of view.

The purpose of this was to see how the mount was behaving, rather than to do a serious imaging session, but I thought I'd post the results here anyway. Due to the average seeing and the Moon being up it's not my best image of Jupiter, but at least I no longer have to keep faffing with the RumblePad to keep the target centred on the webcam chip.

The two versions of the same pic differ only by the amount of sharpening. I might run them through Noel's Actions later to see if it makes any difference.

8" Newt, SPC900NC webcam (unmodified), 8mm EP projection with 50mm extension, captured and stacked in K3CCDTools3 then processed in Registax and PSCS3.

Summer Hols 2009 – Dorset – Bovington Tank Museum

Posted by on September 12th 2009 in Great Escapes, Summer Holidays

As promised, here's another batch.

This time you get 36 pics taken at the Tank Museum – just click the pic below to get the others:

Summer Hols 2009 – Dorset – around West Bay

Posted by on September 11th 2009 in Great Escapes, Summer Holidays
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Well, I've eventually managed to find time to deal with a few of the holiday snaps. I won't bore you with a load of text - you can have the story in pictures instead. You can expect a few more posts like this over the next few days.

Let's start with 14 pics taken around West Bay - just click the pic below to get the others:

 

Crew-cut

Posted by on August 28th 2009 in In the garden
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A couple of weeks ago our large Salix babylonica decided to dump an eight-foot long by one-foot dia chunk of rotten wood on the lawn. For safety's sake we had to put the garden out-of-bounds for a while until the experts had had a look at the thing. They recommended pollarding to reduce the weight, remove any deadwood and reduce the "sail".

Yesterday their crew turned up to do the deed...

That's a serious bit of trimming, eh?

Comments+Pics

Posted by on August 27th 2009 in Pics, Site update

There's now an option to add pics to your comments, you'll find the relevant bit just above the comment-input box.

I trust that you won't abuse the facility.

TKO-ZOTO

Posted by on August 26th 2009 in Photo hosting
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Looks like I jumped ship just in time:

If you were to follow the link to the forums, you'd find yourself here.

Don't be fooled by the timestamps in the forum posts - they haven't changed all day!

You can see the correct timestamps in the RSS Feed.