The purpose of this site…

… is to collect information’s about astronomy, my DIY projects as well as images I have taken with my scope and cam.

Use the links on top of the page to navigate through my personal stuff. The links on the right are all linked to external pages.

Oh Lord…

… I am able to continue my work. After a long summer where I was forced to do nothing but waitin’…

Tomorrow Monday I will send the stepper motor and focuser brackets for 3D printing.

Need to order new belts cause everything changed after drawing and constructing the motor brackets.

Target of full automation is still far away…

Die einzige Motivation…

… für sein Handeln kann sein etwas zu erschaffen das Bestand hat, worauf du zurückblicken kannst und sagen: “Das war ich”.

Arduino ASCOM Focuser

Spending the last month with gathering informations about the Arduino ASCOM Focuser from Rob Brown. Prerequisits finished. Will order all the elctronic parts after Easter holidays. Build a prototyp first with stepper motor and driver board from my Arduino kit. Lots of things to consider, not everything is clear. A prototyp will definitly help.

After the prototyp building I will build the final version with better stepper motor and motor driver.

Animated Solar Eclipse

Click image to enlarge. Sorry for the gap in the middle. This happend while doing the meridian flip and believe it or not after the flip it took me 20 mins to find the sun again 😉 And here is a link to all the pics on my Flickr page

Solar Eclipse 20-3-2015

Another one

 

ISO100, 1/4000, single shot, no manipulation, white light of course. The right one is the same but without blue so it looks more “natural”

The Sun

  

ISO 400, 1/2000, single shots

With a little help from a cloud…

ISO 400, 1/2500 sec, no image Manipulation

 

My first pic ever…

ISO 400, 1/1000 sec, no image manipulation

 

The beast has arrived…