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My Telescopes
My Main Telescope - C14 and Paramount ME
My new Paramount MyT and 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien Telescope
MyT Hand Controller
My Meade 12 inch SCT on a CGEM (Classic) Mount
My 4 inch Meade Refractor with Sky Watcher Guidescope and ZWO camera on a CGEM (Classic) Mount
Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount with Canon 40D
My Solar setup using a DSLR and Mylar Filter on my ETX90
DSLR attached to ETX90. LiveView image of 2015 partial eclipse on Canon 40D
I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.
The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.
Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 9:51PM It was very cloudy tonight so there was no activity on the observing front.
During the day Cicada activity was high - quite a noise - especially when I found a single male on a pillar on the terrace. As soon as I got close it went quiet.
This is it
Here is David Attenborough to explain what is going on,
