Hi Folks,
Its been awhile but mostly what I have been doing is working. If your a facebook friend you already know that I am below 300lbs. A lot has changed in these past few months, now that I have shrunk I have much more energy! This has lead to me becoming a Doer, the result is that I am currently working with a new laptop.
Now we are moving into the Plan. I am ordering a new telescope optical tube tomorrow, and updating my pinboard. The next month will be spent trying to secure the GEM for my mount. Along with birthday money I will hopefully have the telescope and mount in late June, then the fun begins.
My plan is to start in my back yard, setting up and tearing down the scope, using eyepieces to split doubles and star testing. I have found my old DSI Pro II not only works, but works in linux as well. I hope to turn it into a guide camera on my setup.
Once the mount and Telescope have been setup I am going to try and figure out how to start my camping setups, more than likely I am going to purchase a tent, after I have some of the big ticket astro imaging items done. I plan on doing a trip to Mt.Lemmon or something of the like in August, but we will have to see. In the fall though expedition one may go off.
In the mean time Stay tuned to the pinboard as Items are purchased they will go off the list.
A couple of more items, this saturday 5/04/2014 I would like to get a group together to talk about projects they are working on. I hope to make it an ongoing thing, which may become a club.
Also I have started a wiki, Exemplar Astronomiae its latin for a book of astronomy which is meant to be copied. I hope to put up tidbits of knowledge as well as some experiments people can do with telescopes from 5-42inches. Hopefully the experiments will be detailed enough that people can repeat them. There is a section for equipment as well, with instructions for various calibration and testing strategies. My hope is that others will eventually contribute but we will see.
