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The trued up backing disk lying on the saucepan for scale. 180mm disk,
203mm pan. The disk will be all but covered by the focuser base. With hopefully a margin for the push pull, collimation screws. Still "in the rough" at this time. I'll have to bore the [110mm?] centre hole to clear the new drawtube before I can turn the edge of the disk on the 3 jaw chuck. I needed the limits of my 4-jaw chuck to be able to turn the faces. I still have only a very rough idea of the actual dimensions involved so I am making haste slowly. I promise it will be much prettier, and lighter, when it is finished.Saturday morning: Overcast with brighter periods through thin cloud. The views are so misty as to be worthless but improving. I routinely watched for shadow edges to harden on the observatory wall as I scribble my blog on the laptop.
A fellow owner of AWR drives has suggested I check for IH2 firmware updates on the AWR website. Which I duly did. To discoverer I was a couple of updates in arrears. I shan't go into much detail because it will only apply to AWR IH2 drive users. I downloaded the bootloader and the latest release and put them in the same file to ease finding them.
Then I followed the instructions on page 61 of 70 in the AWR IDS Manual. A few moments later I was rewarded with new firmware. Power off and then back on and the new firmware number V1.740 showed on the IH2 screen.
Then I followed the instructions on page 61 of 70 in the AWR IDS Manual. A few moments later I was rewarded with new firmware. Power off and then back on and the new firmware number V1.740 showed on the IH2 screen.
11.10 54/49F I have the telescopes tracking on the sun, using C-Du-C, but with only rare brightening so far. The cloud is coming from the SW and is only slightly mottled. With any, clear blue areas only overhead.
11.25 Finally! A WL view showed a nice spot cluster on the bottom of the disk from my point of view. The largest spot has a Saturn ring with disturbed texture nearby. West or 3.00 on Gong.
9 o' clock on the "straight through" binoviewers view in H-a. A nice spot on the limb with a bar through it and an extended, but broken filament parallel to the bar. Large area of plage and a prominence nearby on the limb.
Spent hours capturing videos of the spot and then spoiling them with Registax. I was getting some remarkably clear images on the laptop during capture. Though there was a fair bit of thermal agitation of the image at other times. My poor laptop drive is now full of captured videos. What to do? Use an external hard drive?
11.25 Finally! A WL view showed a nice spot cluster on the bottom of the disk from my point of view. The largest spot has a Saturn ring with disturbed texture nearby. West or 3.00 on Gong.
9 o' clock on the "straight through" binoviewers view in H-a. A nice spot on the limb with a bar through it and an extended, but broken filament parallel to the bar. Large area of plage and a prominence nearby on the limb.
Spent hours capturing videos of the spot and then spoiling them with Registax. I was getting some remarkably clear images on the laptop during capture. Though there was a fair bit of thermal agitation of the image at other times. My poor laptop drive is now full of captured videos. What to do? Use an external hard drive?
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