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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: New kid in town

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Thursday, February 13, 2014. New kid in town. Tonight I aligned a brand sparkling old Celestron. CGE equatorial mount, which I use temporarily, awaiting the arrival of my own 10 Micron. 2000HPS mount. I have been waiting since 4 months now, but then, it has to cross the Alps, all the way from Italy. Not an easy task for any equatorial mount. Let alone it did not even leave the factory I learned the other day. Robtics. Likely. Especially if using derotation software like Winjupos. I expect not. At lea...

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: Cold as ice

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Friday, February 14, 2014. The other night my SBIG. STT8300 saw first photographic light. It sat idle in its Pelican case for a few months since the day I acquired it - the duration of our move to a new house. Finally the skies briefly cleared, there was a supernova in M82. I rushed the Celestron. VX mount and Takahashi. The SBIG STT8300 is a deeply cooled monochrome CCD camera. And mine is equipped with a self-guiding filterwheel. The next day I launched a support request at both SBIG and Cyanogen.

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: August 2014

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Saturday, August 16, 2014. Speed dating with the stars: the InstaSky image. The Stone Age of Astrophotography. 90 minutes exposure through a Takahashi astrograph on hypered TP2415, back in the 90's. 2 hour exposure using an SBIG CCD and RGB filters with Takahashi FSQ in 2006. New kid in town. Keeping the camera cold with icepacks! See what we have got for you! All of this evolution seems to come together right now to allow for nearly Polaroïd like astrophotography. We no longer want to use a cabling mess...

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: Mirrors by numbers

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Last week I spent some time at the S9 building of Ghent University where the local Public Observatory Armand Pien found a temporary shelter during the renovation works on their observatory (located in another university building). The S9 building is also the home for a group of ATM, and the heart of the School Telescope project in Belgium and the Netherlands. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. My Images on Flickr.

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: Speed dating with the stars: the InstaSky image

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Saturday, August 16, 2014. Speed dating with the stars: the InstaSky image. The Stone Age of Astrophotography. 90 minutes exposure through a Takahashi astrograph on hypered TP2415, back in the 90's. 2 hour exposure using an SBIG CCD and RGB filters with Takahashi FSQ in 2006. New kid in town. Keeping the camera cold with icepacks! See what we have got for you! All of this evolution seems to come together right now to allow for nearly Polaroïd like astrophotography. We no longer want to use a cabling mess...

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: February 2014

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Lucky shot this morning. The skies cleared just before sunrise to allow for a portrait of Venus chasing the moon out of the morning sky. I have seen them closer together, even Venus disappearing behind the moon, but it always makes a nice sight. On national television weather forecast, it looked like this:. Last monday I put to service the iOptron Sky Tracker. The iOptron app on iPhone. Surely if you want to use lenses like the Canon 200mm 2.8 in my picture. Swapping l...Teles...

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: March 2014

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Last week I spent some time at the S9 building of Ghent University where the local Public Observatory Armand Pien found a temporary shelter during the renovation works on their observatory (located in another university building). The S9 building is also the home for a group of ATM, and the heart of the School Telescope project in Belgium and the Netherlands. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. My Images on Flickr.

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: Move over darling!

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Lucky shot this morning. The skies cleared just before sunrise to allow for a portrait of Venus chasing the moon out of the morning sky. I have seen them closer together, even Venus disappearing behind the moon, but it always makes a nice sight. On national television weather forecast, it looked like this:. Last monday I put to service the iOptron Sky Tracker. The iOptron app on iPhone. Surely if you want to use lenses like the Canon 200mm 2.8 in my picture. Swapping l...

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Dodi's Astronomy Blog: Too much confusion

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Sunday, February 23, 2014. OK, I did it. I just got me one of those new, advanced Skywatcher Flextube GOTO dobsonian. Telescopes. I mean, 12 inch full aperture, tracking and finding faint fuzzies in the sky without having to fall back to Olympic gymnastics was just too tempting to resist. Make no mistake: a 12 inch Skywatcher Flextube Goto is heavy. Martine in the dunes, making a selfie video, wearing a kinda Mick Jagger coat. Did I mention collimating the optics was straightforward? It is, with the big ...