The EQ6 Mounted on the Pier
Here’s a quick pic of the EQ6 mounted on the pier in the observatory. I haven’t had much time to do anything with the setup the…
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Heath Robinson Threaded Bar
I decided that drilling a 13+ mm hole through the 10mm thickness of the lower pier plate would be just too much work, so I took…
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Four hundred years ago when Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the satellites appeared in his primitive telescope as tiny, almost infinitesimal specks of light pirouetting…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 402: Nova in Ophiuchus
AAVSO Alert Notice 402: Nova in Ophiuchus August 17, 2009 Discovered By: K. Itagaki (Teppo-Cho, Yamagata, Japan) Discovery Date: 2009 August 16.515 Position: RA = 17h…
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I finally got some time to play with the EQ6 adapter and see if it fitted onto the pier out in the observatory. I’m happy to…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 401: Monitoring of EX Hya and DQ Her August 13, 2009 Kunegunda Belle, Don Hoard and Steve Howell are observing two cataclysmic variables…
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The annual Perseid meteor shower is about to peak. The show begins after sunset on Tuesday, August 11th, and continues until the sun rises on Wednesday,…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 400: Nova Sagittarii 2009 Number 3 August 8, 2009 Discovered Independently By: a. – Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho,…
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The EQ6 Adapter I had Beacon Hill Telescopes make up for me has arrived. It comprises an adapter to take the EQ6 mount head and a…
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This year’s Perseid meteor shower could be even better than usual. According to NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, a filament of comet dust has drifted across Earth’s…
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