2023 Total Solar Eclipse, Observatory
My 2023 aim was to decide on a new home location, not fulfilled in 2021-22, and adjust astrophotography at a remote observatory around that, balancing contract work, travel to Perth Observatory for volunteering and social access to family and friends.
2022 Experimentation with automation positioned me to remotely host my telescope, and I signed an agreement to do so, and work is currently underway to establish this.
The big event for 2023 is the April 20, Total Solar Eclipse in Exmouth, WA. Accommodation was arranged mid-2022, and some equipment experimentation began in later 2022, that now needs to be finalized, such that it works easily on the day!
Unless stated otherwise, images are from my home location in Leeming, 15 Km south of the centre of Perth, Western Australia. Leeming has SQM 19.00 Bortle 6 skies.
My favourite shots can also be found on AstroBin http://www.astrobin.com/users/scottastrophe
Read More2022 Experimentation with automation positioned me to remotely host my telescope, and I signed an agreement to do so, and work is currently underway to establish this.
The big event for 2023 is the April 20, Total Solar Eclipse in Exmouth, WA. Accommodation was arranged mid-2022, and some equipment experimentation began in later 2022, that now needs to be finalized, such that it works easily on the day!
Unless stated otherwise, images are from my home location in Leeming, 15 Km south of the centre of Perth, Western Australia. Leeming has SQM 19.00 Bortle 6 skies.
My favourite shots can also be found on AstroBin http://www.astrobin.com/users/scottastrophe
Testing C8 focal reducer - 2/1/2023
I had acquired a vintage, EQ wedge mounted, 'Orange Tube' Celestron 8" mid-2022, primarily as a collector's item and as memorabilia as this was an aspirational telescope for me in the late 1970's , not achieved.
I acquired photographic adapters also, to experiment with on this scope, but had not found time to test them, so decided to do so with the lightweight Canon M50 mirrorless camera.
Telescope - Celestron "Orange Tube 8" f/10 F=2030mm with Celestron 0.63x Focal Reducer/Corrector for F=1280 f/6.3, No filter, Canon M50 Mirrorless field 43' x 63' , Ambient ~25C. Fork mount on wedge on table top with sidereal rate drivel, unguided.
