Lo-tech astronomy and improving bikepacking skills
About two years ago the Sterrenknoeiers Astronomical Society had their last starparty, in Hohenwoos (Germany). There’s only a few of us Sterrenknoeiers but with our busy schedules we don’t actually meet in real life...
Today was hot and sunny. The perfect day to ATM a solar filter. I opted for a DIY filter simply because it’s cheap to make. All in all I think I spent only a...
Yesterday I crafted a simple dew-buster for the secondairy mirror in my 8″ dobsonian. It’s a tube OTA so the secondairy doesn’t really fog up that quickly but I did need a way to...
A family weekend brought me and my binoculars to the province of Drenthe. This part of our country is known for little light pollution so I figured I’d bring by binocular along. The SSCX...
Three years ago I discovered the bikepacking phenomenon and decided that was a great way of spending some quality time outdoors and at the same time a good motivation to get into shape. In...
A quick look at the sun through a Coronado PST on a Celestron LCM mount. Both borrowed from the public observatory I work for in my spare time. Not much going on though. Only...
…insane, to our standards that is. It’s not often we get 1.38 seeing. Had a good and loooong look at Jupiter. The red dot was really red, bright but dark. At times I could...
Last week I finally managed to DIY my “Telrad Deluxe”. That’s an ordinary Telrad finder with a powered dew-protector hacked in to it. One of the major gripes I have with any finder with...
A clear night right at the start of my weekend and a darts match on the telly: goodbye, I’m off playing outside then! Out with the 8″ dobsonian! A setting and still young moon...
Yesterday morning we were treated on a nice close conjunction of the moon and Jupiter. Today was not as good a show but it was still a nice wide conjunction to look at. And...
A clear night when none was expected! After initial reluctance to go out in the cold I decided on following Bart K’s lead. I still had no real feel on the performance of my scope...
