I installed a small 8000 BTU window air conditioner in the dome several years ago to keep the dome cool during the summer. I am…
The saga comes to a close… Celestron Help After talking to the Celestron Rep (Will) it sounds like I missed something when inserting the secondary.…
For a little while I have been getting strange diffraction spikes from the Edge 11/STF8300M system, as seen in the sub below. The brighter stars…
I have been using Sky Flats in ACP for some time. They work well, but have a couple of procedural limitations: I can’t always be…
I am busy building a dome controller to replace the Foster Systems unit. I call it BrewSpinDome, an Arduino based controller with a more precise…
The continuing saga of the shutter controller… In the process of testing capacitors on my controller, I somehow managed to plug power in backwards. Thought…
The shutter is still having trouble closing. Opening is always fine, but sometimes the close operation fails. The lower shutter gets power, but never moves.…
Went out before the moon came up and got some readings in different areas nearby. The idea was to verify whether the map showing light…
I borrowed the SQM-L meter from NOAO again to try a new thing. As per Sky & Telescope, a new iPhone6 app allows me to…
I have been having an irregular problem where ACP imaging would fail when Maxim gets hung on reading the camera. I start an imaging run…