Ordered a new laptop today....

4 mar 2010

Imaged B33 (horsehead nebula) using my canon EOS350D, as I do not need a laptop for that... My laptop's USB ports seem dead, so I need to replace the laptop if I want to use my ATK camera...

3 mar 2010

After installing the scope, camera and laptop, my laptop reported a "power surge" on the USB hub and since then, the USB ports of my laptop seem dead....

4 feb 2010

Imaged M1, problems with the "goto" of the LX200, so had to find M1 visually. Collimation is good, images are very sharp. Made 35 images of 90 seconds each, but tracking was not optimal. Again, dew made me shut down early. Need to buy anti-dew kit badly.

31 jan 2010

The sky was clear and I decided to collimate the main scope. Had to turn one of the screws of the secundairy mirror almost 90 degrees to fix it. Images are very crips now. Made LPI images of Mars at f/20. I do not like my 2x Barlow.....