Hi:
Well, after 9 months without going to the rural observatory, finally my wife and I went this past weekend to Valle the Bravo, the place where I have the Orion observatory mounted since25 or more years ago.
I thought that I would find the observatory in a real bad condition, but after taking off a Hornet´s nest from the door, I found everything O.K., just with dust over the big towels ( the ones discarded by my wife that I use to cover the scopes, PC´s and everything).
After vacuuming every thing during the Friday evening and early Saturday morning and also mounting one of the PC´s that was repaired, I opened the roof and tried to start the HGM200 Losmandy mount with the 6" f/12 A-P "Superplanetary" refractor, but the mount did not work, so I had to open the control box and change a battery and had to reprogram it.
The problem was that i had forgotten how to do it, so had to reread thee instruction manual and fight a bit with the mount until it worked.
Finally mounted the 2X Baader Telecentric and old ATM Daystar filter, the focusing cables and camera connections and went to the monitor to saw an incredible image of the active zones, the image was almost perfectly focused, so I just had to tweak the focusing handpad a couple of times to get a view that I had not seen from months or years ago.
So took a few recordings and found that I had forgotten a USB memory stick so to bring home the images and processed them, so I asked my family and luckily one of them had one, so I barrowed it.
Thanks for looking so many repeated objects but as I always say, the all have different parameters and focusing.
Now I am at the city and it is clouded and cold , but hope that you like some of the shots, open the mosaics in another window.
I must say that I had forgotten how good the old systems works and how demanding it is, I had to take apart the SKYnyx 2 2 camera so to clean the chip, it was full of dust particles that were hard to clean, because the final focal length of the system is 3600mm.
Excuse the story of the past weekend session, but I bet that some of you had had experiences like that.
Best regards to all and have a good and safe week.
Eric.
PS. excuse, I forgot to orient some of the images.
Sol from the 28th and 29th of November 2020.
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Re: Sol from the 28th and 29th of November 2020.
Fantastic images, Eric!
Looks like we both imaged the same sun yesterday. Glad the rural observatory is alright. Nine months, time passes so fast now.
Phil
Looks like we both imaged the same sun yesterday. Glad the rural observatory is alright. Nine months, time passes so fast now.
Phil
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Hi Eric,
Excellent images. I do not vacuum off the dust. It protects the paint from my scopes and mounts
Excellent images. I do not vacuum off the dust. It protects the paint from my scopes and mounts
regards Rainer
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Very nice Eric. You captured those post flare loops!!
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Re: Sol from the 28th and 29th of November 2020.
Superb images, Eric. These are so beautiful and uplifting.
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Re: Sol from the 28th and 29th of November 2020.
Exceptional images Eric
Glad to hear you got everything up and running after the cleaning and other challenges...not surprised after being away form none months
Brian
Glad to hear you got everything up and running after the cleaning and other challenges...not surprised after being away form none months
Brian
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Orion EON 130ED, f7 OTA for Day & Night Use
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Fantastic collection Eric!
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Oh WoW!! Eric certainly worth all the effort, trials and tribulations to get these images
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