August
1
2015

Back and forth.

Everbody married knows, who the real boss is... My boss decided that the old basement of my old pier, which drives 20cm additional height, have to dissapear to get everthing a litte smaller in height...

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July
15
2015

Pieces come together.

It's time to perform the final mounting of all components. Next "destination" should be: mounting the main mirror and go streight ahead to the final destination named: "first light"! I'm curious about, after having mounted all components, if they fit together.

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July
14
2015

The most important component!

Yes! Today - after waiting for roughly 5 months - ealier as expected - "THE MIRROR" arived. A nice well finshed surface smiles at me.

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July
7
2015

some testing in narrow band H-Alpha.

During the night July 06/07th, I took the opportunity to try to do some narrow band H-alpha images having in mind that the moon rises close to 22:00 UT hoping that this will not impact narrow band imaging to much. I selected Cirrus using my 150/1340mm Refractor ...

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June
28
2015

more pieces come together

Within last days the light weight tube has been delivered. So it's time to pull the components together in oder to get a better understanding of the minimum size of the housing required. In addition I was able to check if the dimensions of the aequatorial pier has been selected correctly ...

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