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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.
Last edited by AsignObservatory; 01-05-2014 at 8:57pm.
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1. It's been couple of nights of rapid progression at ASIGN Observatory II. First night I got collimation of the mirrors sorted out.
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.
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!
Very impressive. About warp 9.
Am.
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Looks amazing - wish I had the know-how to do that stuff, and the finance lol
David Tran
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Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6
Now sits as an antique as it no longer focuses properly.
Wishlist: Sony RX10iv (or RX10v if it ever comes out)
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More testing of the new optics. I still have lots of room for tweaking the focus, but I am still fighting a sky full of moonlight and moisture/smoke. Too many people in our bush capital still using wood fires for heating.
The first picture is a single subexposure of M82 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy of ten minutes, guided using an SBIG ST-i guide camera and the Orion Starshoot (V1) as the main imager.
The second image is a single five minute subexposure of the Carina nebula.
Normally I would take twenty or thirty identical exposures, stack them together with dark, flat, offset/bias frames before exporting them to photoshop for final processing, so I'm pretty excited to see this level of detail, brightness and colour at the bottom of the pile.
Focus and collimation both need work, but that will come in time.
Just read your link and this thread. Really enjoyed it. Good on you for acting on a dream. If it was me, I would still be at initial talking phase and probably never make it happen.
Lauri
Space! The Final Frontier.
These are the images of the AsignObservatory enterprise.
It's ongoing mission: ...to boldly go...
...where no Baz has been before...
Epilog:
And to take us along.
m.
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The observatory looks a little bit like the Tardis ,enjoy your time travel, regards Nick.
Baz, you blow my mind.
To have watched this from your earlier posts to now has me admiring your dedication and perseverance.
I had the good fortune the other day to attend a presentation by Roger Croom and we briefly discussed you and your project.
Full points to you for what you've done.
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Originally Posted by SirLozalot
Space! The Final Frontier.
These are the images of the AsignObservatory enterprise.
It's ongoing mission: ...to boldly go...
...where no Baz has been before...
Epilog:
And to take us along.
Thanks heaps gang! My little way of repaying all the help, suggestions, encouragement and advice from all the fora is to make the process available as a build-blog so others can take ideas and inspiration from it to get their own projects done.
God bless the lot of ya!
Baz.
Wow. I've followed with interest and it's great to see such phenomenal results.
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Glad you enjoyed Carl!
Baz.
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The television show called MANSPACE aired my observatory last night. They did a great job, apart for the part where they called me John.... LOL!
It features first up, about a minute and a half into the show. http://www.jump-in.com.au/show/mansp...de-7/#autoplay
How slack of them, Peter
Just had a look then.. Good work John hahaha
Saw MANSPACE ... good piece !
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For those of my overseas friends that can't view the Manspace TV segment on their website, it is now on the home page of the ASIGN Observatory II website.
I wonder how I can edit the video and dub over the bit that calls me John....
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