8/8/2019 Camper Progress

I haven’t posted about the camper project in a while but somethings have been done. Here’s a picture of the front with the cargo hatch in place and the exterior moulding along the bottom. The moulding spans the camper and trailer frame. From the other end you can see the plywood that I just attached to the walls. It’s the same “RevolutionPly” used in the floor. The flip ups are ready for the portal windows and to be attached so that should happen soon. Just a matter of putting the pieces together. Attach the vent to the lid, add weather seal so that it doesn’t let water get in. It won’t be done in a month but it should be ready for a night out.

5/11/2019 Two Galaxies

It took me a week to successfully process these but here are two galaxies – M81 (Bode’s Galaxy) and M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) – I shot Friday the 5th up at the River Ridge Observatory. 11″ SCT at f/6.3 on CGEM-DX mount. Each is made from 30 30 second images auto-stacked in SharpCap. I had a lot of difficulty processing them, nothing that experience won’t fix I’m sure. Each is cropped. so the relative sizes here may not reflect how they are in real life. Especially visible in M81 are vignetting and some dust motes so I need to start taking flats I guess. Dark frames are easy of course, flat frames not as much but needed anyway.

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