SingAstro

Knee pivot cap fitted.



Foot pivot fitted. Eventually the in the middle will also disappear.

Airconvent wrote:Hey, sorry about the foot, mate. Hope you get better!
Now if you had the suit done, Jarvic can move your foot for you in the suit! :p Nice joints by the way!

Thanks mate.

I'm still hopping along on a crook foot, (nearly broke it) but I brought an office chair on wheels into the workshop after work today and got a bit of welding done around the table. One foot on the ground, the other knee on the chair. It works. Started with an arm and shoulder, welding on the new co...

rcj wrote:very nice and detailed shot you have there Barry! at what focal length was this captured with? any cropping?

No cropping. Prime focus of the GSO RC12. Nearly two and a half metres of FL.

So, I've designed some little steel features to add to the suit to make it look more tech and set it apart from so many other suits that leave out detail and therefore look plain. I have a machinist doing it for me because it wouldn't be appropriate for me to use the lathe at work at the moment. Thi...

kimo wrote:It was taken with RGB filter or OSC? how about Exposures. Thanks.

OSC. 20 x 10 minute exposures.

kimo wrote:wow very nice.

Thank you.

From a few nights ago. I finished up at around 3am but fell asleep on the floor next to the telescope. Woke up at 6 with ice dripping onto my cheek from the dome above. 3 hours 20 minutes of exposure on the Omega Nebula. The Omega Nebula is between 5,000 and 6,000 light-years from Earth and it spans...

Had a really, really REALLY bad night. Everything went wrong. Crystal clear night ALL night WASTED on glitches. PHD tracking program kept tracking west and losing the guide star, even though it was bright and sharp. Pointing accuracy of the mount was so bad I could not find a single target. Right as...

Airconvent wrote:Cool Barry!

Thanks mate!