Author: Gord

For a few years I’ve been accumulating the bits required to create a much more portable setup for my venerable old CG5 mount. This mount was purchased in about 2002…

(Reprinted from David Knisely, Prairie Astronomy Club, Inc. to ensure it doesn’t disappear into the ether) In a Newtonian telescope, a parabolic mirror is usually used, since thatsurface focuses light…

Automating my home observatory has been a lot of fun, and a lot of challenges as well! For new readers my home observatory is a 5×5 micro-observatory (i.e. no room…

Centaurus A (also known as ARP 152, NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77) is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop…

Today I cast a tool to use to grind my 10″ mirror blank, something I haven’t done in a looong time. But it went pretty well. The one unusual thing…

So the conclusion of my experimentation with the 10″ F/4.7 on the NEQ6 is too long, too heavy. So it’s off the mount, being replaced by my 8″ SCT with…

A quick session tonight getting my telescope back up and running after the frigid weather this winter caused some issues with the cabling. Now I have move all of the…

Since the weather outside is frightful I decided to take an image of a Southern galaxy not visible in Winnipeg using iTelescope 59 in Siding Springs, Australia, a 20″ F/6.8…

A New Allsky Camera Application By Gord Tulloch Over the last few years I have been using the Thomas Jaquin (TJ) allsky camera software with great success, as have several…

Thought I’d share this amazing eclipse image with you by Robin Leadbeater (http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/astro/spectra_27.htm) using a Star Analyzer at a total eclipse in Turkey in 2006. I’m working on a solar…