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Yes, I did it once while I was building a new observatory. It took me just 3 hours to build!!  Thick marine ply base with 6 castors to help keep it from flexing, cut out for scope pier. Even put in a dehumidifier. Mine was a bit messy as it was only temporary. Cheap though! And… Fast to start up. I really liked this solution. Mrs also thought it was ok in the garden. This would be ideal for small gardens or even one of Patrick Moores concrete observatory bases. New light curve for NSVS14256825 binary.   Getting a bit low (30deg at end) Great night for planet spotting. Really nice stable conditions. Also got a quick pic of M51 single frame 500sec.  Also got a really nice plot of NSVS 01286630 Orbit 11499 primary eclipse.  Not the usual view of the moon.. Taken with my phone!  Thanks for writing this handy guide.. Now in the LINKS page. Binary star measurement. Using the time variations of the eclipses we are able to calculate the orbit of possible companion objects big enough to have an effect on the orbital period of the binary pair. The picture below is the plot of light magnitude from the binary pair. The timing of this minima is then corrected for our orbit round the sun and further corrections to give the precise time of the eclipse. many of these are measured to find orbital variation caused by third objects.  A star 465 Light years away from earth. Has a planet around it that was first confirmed in 2012. So I thought I would use my observatory to look at the transit of that planet. A very small dip in the light from the star.  Unfortunately I could not get the entry into eclipse due to cloud and this makes the plot a bit distorted. This is at the exit from transit at 22:00 UTC on the 25-4-2019. The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.  Just taken with R,G,B Filters a stack of 3 x 400sec images for each filter. Darks and Flats from the current library. Taken from Selsey with the RC Astrograph and Starlight Xpress H694 camera at -12c. I have included a sample TEMP file for the ObsMGr10. This gives you the file naming conventions I have used for Master Darks and Flats: Hope you can make sense of this. Clearly there is a lot of system setup to do before you have full automation, but once done it makes life very easy to get say 100 variable star measurements for a time series curve. All automated and checked for accuracy and noise level. Hope this helps. Ok You will also need a temp file on the desktop for all your images and log files. Any questions just email me at web@astro.me.uk John |
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