New telescope first light
My old 6 inches newtonian served me well for over two years, but finally I managed to complete building of the new 8 inches fast f/4 newtonian. I…
Arduino ASCOM focuser kit
Maybe you remember the ASCOM jolo focuser project - now it has the production implementation! Some of my astro colleagues took a chance and we made…
Atik power hunger
Atik 383L+ is for sure great bang for the buck camera - large KAF8300 sensor with over 8 million pixels, quite sensitive (about 55% peak QE and 45%…
To catch a cosmic ray
Cosmic rays are very high energy particles that penetrate Earth atmosphere and sometimes even reach the surface. High energy means much, much higher…
Floating in the hydrogen sea II
About a month ago I wrote a blog entry with NGC6914 nebula floating in the hydrogen see - Floating in the hydrogen sea . And I just wanted to make…
Atik is here
DSLR has been eventually replaced with dedicated astro camera - Atik 383L+. This one is equipped with monochrome Kodak sensor KAF-8300 with 5.4um…
Mortal Combat - DSLR vs Atik
Just before weather break down I managed to gather some more photons that have been travelling about 8 milion years to be eventually captured in my…
Arduino telescope focuser real life tests
In the first part (ASCOM telescope focuser with Arduino) short description of the project was presented. Last night I have noticed a few stars (yeah,…