Monthly Archives: January 2020

January 1st: Best weather of the decade so far

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

New Year’s Day was dark. Really dark.

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Once more unto the beech

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

And only once more… Shortly before Christmas it became clear that an old beech tree at the end of our garden was rather more hollow than we realised and in fact has started to rot off at the bottom, presumably … Continue reading →

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A “Crown of Thorns” for my rain gauge

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

One of the problems with a rain gauge and I think something that had prevented it working properly last time was that it forms a nice little perch for birds who then, err, contrive to block up the holes that … Continue reading →

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Powering a Raspberry Pi from a 12V supply

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

My Stevenson screen has a 12V supply to it for powering the 1-wire hub that has all my weather sensors attached to it. At the moment the main 1-wire connection runs back to the PC in the observatory warm room, … Continue reading →

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AAG Weather Station lives again!

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

My AAG weather station lived on a post in the field in front of the house until it was blown down in a storm a couple of years back. The plastic of the housing had degraded quite badly in the … Continue reading →

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A revisitation of M27 revisited

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

A while back I posted an image of M27 and it was suggested that I grabbed some OIII data which would show up the outer wings of the PN. As almost no-one in the UK will be unaware, the weather … Continue reading →

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A second attempt at processing the Crescent

Posted on January 16, 2020 by james

I’ve had another crack at this and I think it’s better in some respects, but I’m coming to the conclusion that I really have to get rid of the stars and process them and the nebulosity separately as trying to … Continue reading →

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Baby steps around the Crescent

Posted on January 15, 2020 by james

With all the miserable weather we’ve had I’ve finally got things organised to do a bit of processing. Well, organised to do a bit of learning about processing really. When Photoshop-wrangling is required, I am only an egg. So, this … Continue reading →

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Juicing apples

Posted on January 15, 2020 by james

As ever it took longer to get around to this than I’d hoped, mostly because we’d been somewhat short of weekends with suitable weather. However, eventually I had the opportunity to assemble all the various bits and pieces required to … Continue reading →

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Restoring an AAG rain gauge #1

Posted on January 15, 2020 by james

I’ve had one of AAG’s rain gauges for years. I’m not sure they make them any more, but I believe they were someone else’s design anyhow. In the end it gave up because it was bunged up and the electronics … Continue reading →

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