What a great night, not too cold or wet or cloudy, no real haar,Got back from BiG at 10pm, a run and ropework tonight, south african abseiling, but I digress. Set it up as before, way off with the polar scope as it turns out, but a two star alignment worked well, Vega and Deneb. […]

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since last post. All down to a failure of a screw on a microswitch on Obby’s sliding roof. Alastair M saw it recently and suggested super gluing it on. A good tip its September, a good month for Hercules. Been out twice, calibrated from first principles and used the tripod and a battery. Worked really […]

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