Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained. Pardot Kynes. Another Dune quote but its apt for so many things that happened this weekend. Friday Firstly on Friday, I gave a brief talk at Dorkbot Anglia about how I used our Celestron telescope and a cheap, off the… Continue reading Science time
Category: astronomy
Dorkbot Anglia
Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at Dorkbot Anglia 13 about how I cut up a webcam to take pictures and video of the night sky with the Dort’s Celestron telescope. It’s at the town hall and seems that I’m up first. I will (hopefully) be demoing how I stack frames from video to… Continue reading Dorkbot Anglia
2012 moon
This is the year we all die in some Mayan apocalypse, so is it me or is the moon getting bigger? I’ve been playing with one of my new toys I got for Christmas and it allows me to attach my DSLR to the telescope and take piccys. I think my lens need cleaning as… Continue reading 2012 moon
Saturday night, Sunday morning
Bit of bad weather for the star lately, the days are loverly and clear but come evening it gets all cloudy. I was hoping for some Orionoids action but its too hard to see anything with cloud and light polution. The best shot between the clouds tonight was a rather blurry shot of Jupiter and… Continue reading Saturday night, Sunday morning
Mission control, this is Jupiter 1, the Robinson’s are all tucked in
After a brief bit of mucking around with a lens reducer which didn’t seem to work properly a new one arrived today (yesterday by the time I’m writing this) and it was a loverly clear night to give it a try. The main point of it was to try and fit a bit more of… Continue reading Mission control, this is Jupiter 1, the Robinson’s are all tucked in
Vega-3
Three shots of Vega taken from footage shot through the telescope. I was mucking around with a new filter and the second shot came out really weird but the final image is actually quite nice.