I will soon be building a pier foundation for my 8"LX200GPS, and I could use a little advice. What I plan to do is expand an existing deck and build it around...
Hey Joel, The weight of such a pier would certainly not shake or move much when you bump it or walk around, but...... it most certainly would not be a stable...
I know someone that poured a pier that rose two stories. If I remember correctly, they simply called a foundation company and asked them how deep it would need...
Hi Joel, The solution I used for my observatory was in part due to underground utilities located right where I wanted to build the observatory. So I poured an...
Thanks everyone for your guidance. I think now that I may be able to move the pier foundation to a slightly different location away from utility lines and...
I like your observatory Jack and I see you spared no expense on the dome mover. Hope I do as good of a job when I get around to it... ==================== ...
Hey Joel, If you have the option, I'd go with a square base 3ft or so on a side and 3 or 4ft deep with further round extension above that if necessary. ...
Hi Alan, Thanks for the comments, the dome mover cost me $32.00 on sale. If you should attempt to build a 16 sided building might I suggest a good fifth of...
Yes, sort of. I had to take a pair of plyers to screw the filters all the way down into the wheel to make sure they were par focal with each other. Funny...
Hi Jack, Looked at many designs of observation buildings but haven't made my mind up. Roll-off-roof is "more" complicated than one of those preformed...
Hi group, Does anyone know of a publicly available star database, other than NGC, that can be sorted by Magnitude? I would like to use only stars of Mag 10 or...
... See this web site for links to up-to-date star catalogs. http://ad.usno.navy.mil/star/star_cats_rec.shtml Once you have the star catalog in a machine...
I used color sharp for the first time the other night and it looked promising until I started to play around with the contrast controls in Envisage (can't...
The Meade Deep Sky Imager is finally well on the way to becoming usable under LINUX! A group of interested parties has made some good progress in developing...
Very cool! One small step in the right direction. The day my observatory can run on Linux will be a very happy day. Now if I could get the following running in...
Hello, I'm John and I'm glad to find such a wealth of DSI experience. A friend has just found several DSI's in a skip and one is earmarked for me so I may be...
Check out www.deepspaceproducts.com. I just got their extreme cooler for my DSI III Pro and it prevents frost and dew while cooling my camera considerably...
Hi, I just aquired a deep space cooler extreme for my DSI Pro III and I decided to start work on a dark frame library since I can now maintain a set ...
http://tinyurl.com/d75jhk The above web site takes you to my latest photo of M81 emailed yesterday, but with changes making it lighter, a little more blue, and...
Howdy, My name is Gray and I live in Australia. I joined the group today to try to learn a bit more about the Meade imaging process. I would say that I'm an...
Looks nice- what scopes are you using??.. Dave From: yourkiddingmerightt Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:23 AM To: Meade-DSI-Advanced@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Hi Dave, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Scopes range from a Celestron 102 Achromatic, a Bintel N200 203mm reflector and my old LXD55 SN10. Cheers, Gray. ... From: Dave Y...
Hi Gray, Welcome to the group! I enjoyed checking out your gallery, you've done some great narrowband work with your achro refractor. I used a Meade 6" achro...
Hi Matt, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thank you. At least the colour fringing and bloated stars don't show up in NB with the Achro like LRGB does! LOL! I must admit that...
To all Meade DSI Gurus out there, First of all, thanks for letting me join the group! This looks like a helpful and informative site, and Lord knows I need...
Kelsey, Thanks for the VERY prompt reply!! Unfortunately dark frames didn't help in my case. To do an Advanced calibration in AIP4Win I supply the program...
I'm not familiar with that particular software so I wouldn't know what to look for. There's probably a bad setting somewhere in the configuration but again, I...
Hi, My guess is that your 10 dark frames are not taken at the same CCD temp as your exposures. The darks and the exposures must be taken at the same CCD temp. ...
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