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Subject: RAG – Triffid Antenna Hi Andy I asked a former colleague from work to help identify your antenna. He had direct oversight of the Ptarmigan and Triffid projects whilst…
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Solar Cooker purchased from ebay September 2024
This was mentioned on SARA mailing list – and then I saw someone selling one on ebay UK for £50, unused! This is effectively a 1.5m satellite dish which concentrates…
Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992) taken with my Seestar at LRO 16/9/2024
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First Light with my new Seestar S50 telescope at LRO: Andromeda Galaxy M31
This is a wonderful little device! Portable, fully automatic but I have found benefits from a little post-processing – in this case I stacked images using PixInsight’s Weighted Batch Pre-Processing…
Photos from the International Astronomy Show 2024
This show was held in Coventry, England, on 14/9/2024 – the show was excellent, both in terms of talks and stands by astro vendors, and well attended. The show differed…
Advice from James Rowley-Hill on hunting and photographing aurorae in UK at IAS 14/9/2024
Advice from James Rowley-Hill on hunting and photographing aurorae in UK. Aurorae look MUCH better on camera and may not be obvious to eye. Websites and apps for aurora hunting:…
SARA Scope in Box Package, and ezRA Software Suite used for hydrogen radio mapping experiments at LRO and list of hardware components accessible in UK 14/9/2024.
The hydrogen radio mapping project was produced by the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA), based in the USA (https://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/366). Software and instructions for this project can be found below,…
Observing Log @ LRO 11/9/2024@ 21:53-22:10 (British Summer Time)
Andrew Thornett: For 1st time in long time I am outsode with my telescope! Tonight the Dobo for visual as I think need to take it easy – only 6…