Category Archives: Astrophotography and Astronomy

It’s just under two hours for me to reach this site in the GW Forest, coming from northern Virginia. The last 4 miles or so are some fairly rough single-track up the side of a mountain. Conditions were excellent, completely … Continue reading →

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The ADM Losmandy 11″ universal plate came in today. Mounted the clamshell rings right onto it, perfect spacing, just where I wanted it. Tossed it on the mount, added the 3lbs of counterweight to the front, balanced both axes, and … Continue reading →

So I ordered some clamshell rings to get away from the 3-point ring setup, and the risk of flexure. The ADM 3-point rings are just awesome, but I wanted to try a piggy-back setup with the new triplet refractor and … Continue reading →

Comes in two boxes, the power supply in the little one, and the large one. The little one was inside the larger one of course, I just took it out to take a picture. Opening the larger box. I took … Continue reading →

Got the MoonLite focuser back from Ron’s shop in PA today. Tested it in the garage, works smooth as glass. Attached it to the ED80T-CF, put it back in the ADM rings, and ready to run a bunch of V-Curves … Continue reading →