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Andrew Thornett, Lichfield, England, M6THO, andrew (at) thornett (dot) net

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Solar
September 22, 2024 Admin

Results of solar photography session at LRO 17/9/2024

Sky Watcher Equinox Pro 100mm OTA HEQ5 Pro mount Daystar Quark hydrogen chromosphere filter 174MM camera (not cooled) Daystar interference

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Solar
September 22, 2024 Admin

Use of an unusual complex tone curve in ImPPG to obtain excellent solar photo from my data 22/9/2024

I used the tone curve below on data from 17/9/2024 – worked well to produce nice inverted curve! Andy

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
September 21, 2024 Admin

Ptarmigan Triffid Dipole Array

Subject: RAG – Triffid Antenna Hi Andy I asked a former colleague from work to help identify your antenna. He

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Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope
September 20, 2024 Admin

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,

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Astrophotography
September 18, 2024 Admin

Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992) taken with my Seestar at LRO 16/9/2024

20 minutes of data

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Attending & talking at conferences and workshops
September 16, 2024 Admin

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

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Astrophotography
September 15, 2024 Admin

Photos of my astro-imaging rig at LRO 14/9/2024

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Muon Detection
September 15, 2024 Admin

Photos of scintillating block within UKRAA Muon detector 140924

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Attending & talking at conferences and workshops
September 15, 2024 Admin

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

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Attending & talking at conferences and workshops
September 15, 2024 Admin

Andrew speaking at International Astronomy Show 14/9/2024 in Coventry, United Kingdom on how to radio hydrogen mapping of the Milky Way, weighing the Milky Way and demonstrating Dark Matter in our galaxy, at home in your own back yard.

Note I am NOT the chap with the red hair on the right next to the screen! To view the

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