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If you do want to take it further you could remove some more material in 8 segments between the fixings, if that makes sense.

If you haven’t ordered that Hammond chassis yet…

How many of the Nightingale chassis do you have?
You could order some blank aluminium plates cut to size to fit those? Plus maybe a few spares?

And I think I was a lot less brave than you with the feed and step

I think I always used 1/2” bits

I can also recommend Wealden Tools cutters, they were the best ones I found back in the day.

Can’t believe you have built this from scratch in a week!
Wonderful to watch this taking shape, thanks!

Ray P wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:23 pm This is the team I manage.

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Looks like a really interesting job

Astrophotography update :-) I had been hoping to take some wide field shots of the constellation Orion, to provide a bit of context for an image of the Orion Nebula I have been working on. But the weather has not co-operated, so the first two pictures below have been lifted from Wikipedia - I hope t...

They are your valves, so up to you. I manually turn heater supplies up then b+. Two outputs on the variac, all heaters first, then b+. I always assume a unexpected short term power outage could happen, so I either make sure that the startup control is automatic, or not needed. The chokes arent inst...

Great news!

You probably know this, but Seestar’s short focal length means it is best suited to large, wide field targets, but there are plenty of those

Sorry Nick
See star seems like a good package.
Looks like it even includes an OIII / hydrogen alpha filter. You will find this even allows imaging in light polluted skies or with a bright moon.

Cheers guys. I have a plan for the next image but I need some clear nights!
If the weather doesn’t cooperate I will dig out some old data to re-process.

cropped tighter.jpg Known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, this is actually a pair of galaxies interacting. I said a while ago that Andromeda was an easy target (basically it's big and bright). Well, this is a more difficult one (it's a long way away, 23.5 million lightyears, and therefore apparent size an...

Brilliant news Paul, well done!