Monthly Archives: August 2019

Swimming, 12th August 2019

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

Another week, and the pool is still too warm. As I can’t really work on a proper USRT set, to amuse myself after doing my currently passes for my main set I’ve decided to have a couple of minutes rest … Continue reading →

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Blobservatory Bitter

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

Having spent so much time over the last *mumble* months building the observatory, my brewery (which stands right next door) has been sadly neglected. We have even reached the scandalous situation where my wife has occasionally had to actually buy … Continue reading →

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M27 revisited

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

Whilst messing about with aligning my other mounts I decided I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a bit of imaging done with the first, despite not having spend any time improving the sky model, nor having any guiding, … Continue reading →

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Telescope Polar Alignment, Part Two

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

The computery side of my observatory is going to be Linux-based, as far as possible, so I’ve had it in the back of my head that I’d be running something like Kstars and Ekos to control the mount and other … Continue reading →

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Telescope mount polar alignment

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

The observatory having reached a point where it’s usable, the first job was polar alignment of the RA axis of the mounts. When setting up on a nightly basis I’ve always just tried to get Polaris in roughly the right … Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipse, July 2019

Posted on August 13, 2019 by james

I’d forgotten I had these, but July this year found me in France for the lunar eclipse. By complete coincidence the second summer holiday in a row where I’d been able to watch a lunar eclipse. Sadly I was ill-prepared … Continue reading →

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Linux Mint 19 on an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Mini

Posted on August 12, 2019 by james

I picked up a couple of these second-hand recently, to use in the observatory. They came with Windows 10 installed, but I don’t care about that. I want to run Linux Mint on them. I tried a couple of times … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 9th August 2019

Posted on August 10, 2019 by james

Had a bit of barney with Mrs Indignant Triathlete today, who wasn’t chuffed to be asked to move into the slower lane to allow my son and I to swim in the faster one. She claimed to be able to … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 8th August 2019

Posted on August 10, 2019 by james

And another warm water day… USRPT distance this year: 165,800m Total distance this year: 204,900m

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Swimming, 6th August 2019

Posted on August 10, 2019 by james

Same old, same old 🙁 I’m really looking forward to the pool temperature returning to normal. USRPT distance this year: 165,800m Total distance this year: 203,100m

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