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Astrophotography? Why Yes!
This past summer I pulled out a Celestron Telescope that was given to me by my employer as a service anniversary gift. It's nothing special. I used it to observe Saturn and Jupiter. I'd say my...
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Astrophotography: Putting together the basics - DSLR
After looking through many, many, blogs about astrophotography, I came to a simple decision: LOOK FOR A GOOD USED DSLRThis was a set of trade-offs:Full Frame versus APS-C (APS-C means a crop sensor,...
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Astrophotography: ZWO Guide Scope (30F4) and Camera (ASI120Mini) Focusing
I recently ordered the ASIAir Pro bundle with the ZWO ASI120 Mini Camera and the ZWO 30F4 Miniscope from OPT Corp. Here's a link to the bundle I selected:Link to OPT Corp's page While I was waiting for...
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Lightsaber: Updating the firmware of the CFX board on Saber #1
I realized in an online business meeting today, that I had not updated my lightsaber's firmware for a while. Why did I have a lightsaber in a business meeting? The better question is, why doesn't...
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Outdoors: Building a quinzee
I am the scoutmaster for a local ScoutsBSA troop and today was "Let's Build Snow Shelters Day". In the sometimes frozen north, we are faced with the dilemma of camping in the snow if we don't want to...
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Astrophotography: Accidental capture of Orion
This image is the result of stacking only 18 light frames of 5 seconds each with no tracking mount installed and using Sequator with no other post-processing during a full moon. Let's break this...
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