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For my sins, I am on leave this week and subject to odds & sods repairs to my 190-year-old cottage. Yesterday found me under the sink in our bathroom...

Plan: Build this DIY wedge for my ~ 5 lb Mak to sit on.

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Qptions

a. Just center everything and hope for the best.
b. Try to...

Dear SS Forum members,

I've been very busy the last couple weeks getting a concrete pad poured and
putting together a new 2.2 meter NexDome....

Hi, I recently discovered my shed had moved enough to push against the concrete pier. This was causing the mounts alignment to keep going out of...

Hello!

My friend Jani made a program to capture night sky events with cheap Raspberry Pi hardware. Now the program is ready and it supports all...

Hello everybody,
So I put on the Bahtinov mask, focus on Vega till the spikes are perfect and when I snug up the set screw the focus tube moves a...

I have/use a 150mm f/8 achromatic refractor for the planets. Using the 100mm aperture mask that came with the scope, there is still a little flare...

I need to get better at documenting what I'm doing so this is as much for me to practice as for the value of the project itself.

As someone else...

This isn't earth shattering but it has solved a problem I've had.

I have some Hyperion EPs which are a minor pain using a 1.25 diagonal. The...

Purchased SVBONY 40mm dew heater for use with ES 102cf apo. Cost for the heater with stepless temp control was $21.99 plus S&H via Amazon (there are...

A few years ago I found good tips on how to build a tracker in this forum (or astronomyforum.net actually). I've completed the project 2 years ago...

Seeing conditions has a huge effect on how well your reflector telescope preforms, Much of the atmospheric seeing problem, however, arises...

I should firstly let's deal with the plural; someone doesn't pay enough attention when ordering from Amazon. A focuser with a Female adapter for SCT...

The potential for damage outweighs my pride so was hoping someone might have experience with the orion padded tripod 15175 case. Designed for proview...

I threw together a mini tripod for my starblast 6i. This put the tabletop scope to the correct viewing height and it works great! Just thought I'd...

Since my POD is up and running I decided to break it in last night. I had a couple of strikes against me: 1) There was a bright moon. 2) It is in the...

I have been using a wet-leaf water sensor to detect rain, in order to auto-close my dome if the weather tanks. It is reliable and sensitive, and it...

I have had this 150mm F5 Fraunhofer refractor for a year by now. I recognized a small amount of Coma on the optical axis. It was clearly visible from...

Good day all!
I had been trying to find plans to make your own scope dolly and wasn't having much luck...
I looked into the scope buggy and was put...

Did an experiment to attach the two and finally got an adapter printed.
Huge magnification from the 70-210 zoom slr.

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I have been looking at a few star tracker camera mounts but with prices between $250 and $500 I had to put it on the back burner Then I saw a Meade...

I have a couple of Moonlite focusers and love 'em. The owner of Moonlite is Ron Newman. He knows his stuff when it comes to focusers.

Yesterday...

@Maiden and anybody else who's interested in a nebular filter review:

I have no idea if this info is reliable or not. Buyer beware.

I'm not happy with my current goto kit for the G11S. Yesterday I signed on to the OnStep group and put together a bill of materials to make two basic...