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ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Awesome scope! ![good-job [smilie=good-job.gif]](./images/smilies/good-job.gif)
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"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Get this - I sold all my pro photography gear to buy all this, then I had to get a pro photographer in to take these photos for my website and Facebook group.... go figure...
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Mate, get a Pentax and save more money ! ![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Looks nice and cosy in there. I think your Ironman Armour would make a nice decorative piece in there too (just like those Jaoanese Samurai armour on display). It should be placed next to a mini-fridge holding the cold beers![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Have fun in your ovservatory cum den...
![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Looks nice and cosy in there. I think your Ironman Armour would make a nice decorative piece in there too (just like those Jaoanese Samurai armour on display). It should be placed next to a mini-fridge holding the cold beers
![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Have fun in your ovservatory cum den...
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Here's my first go at planetary photography through the new scope. I still have to multiply the focal length out to around six metres to get the best image scale, but here is is at nearly two and a half metre focal length.
Here you see Jupiter and a couple of it's moons. Ganymede on the right is casting a shadow on the surface atmosphere of the Jovian giant.
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Here you see Jupiter and a couple of it's moons. Ganymede on the right is casting a shadow on the surface atmosphere of the Jovian giant.
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Ok here you go. :thumbup:
After 30 hours of cutting, drilling, bolting and painting, ASIGN Observatory II is now sporting a very stylish pergola and banister over the front entrance.
And a bonus little screen grab of Johanna Griggs from the Better Homes and Gardens team with me on the observation deck.
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After 30 hours of cutting, drilling, bolting and painting, ASIGN Observatory II is now sporting a very stylish pergola and banister over the front entrance.
And a bonus little screen grab of Johanna Griggs from the Better Homes and Gardens team with me on the observation deck.
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/Qfle5GS.jpg)
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/btk0PnX.jpg)
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Cool, Barry ! You didn't ask her to smash a champagne bottle on the wall? ![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Looks like you have been multi-tasking. I though you were too engrossed in IronMan Mk2...![smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Looks like you have been multi-tasking. I though you were too engrossed in IronMan Mk2...
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The IM suit is a cloudy night activity, not a gorgeous day off activity.Airconvent wrote:Cool, Barry ! You didn't ask her to smash a champagne bottle on the wall?
Looks like you have been multi-tasking. I though you were too engrossed in IronMan Mk2...
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
1. It's been couple of nights of rapid progression at ASIGN Observatory II. First night I got collimation of the mirrors sorted out.
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2, 3 &4. Last night I had a fellow astronomer visit and help me through configuring of all the software that runs the telescope and cameras. Here's a few shots of the setup.
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5 and finally, here's the first image (60 second single exposure) out of the new telescope through the deep space imager. It should be noted that there was nearly a full moon up and the mist filled the sky with poo. I can't wait to get a clear moonless night on some distant galaxies!
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/S61W4XU.jpg)
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/HDK8Tm2.jpg)
2, 3 &4. Last night I had a fellow astronomer visit and help me through configuring of all the software that runs the telescope and cameras. Here's a few shots of the setup.
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/O87UQr2.jpg)
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/c08AmCD.jpg)
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/cgcKUSm.jpg)
5 and finally, here's the first image (60 second single exposure) out of the new telescope through the deep space imager. It should be noted that there was nearly a full moon up and the mist filled the sky with poo. I can't wait to get a clear moonless night on some distant galaxies!
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/S61W4XU.jpg)
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Re: ASIGN Observatory II is back on track!
Red rings never looked so good! Good job!
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.