My window observatory

malex

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Equipment

Jan 16th, 2020

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Resolution:: 2592x1944 px
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Photo description / processing

My street-balcony-window observatory in action. The balcony is on the first floor. The Jupiter 37A lens is the main one. A Jupiter 21M is used as the guide. Although sometimes they switch roles. The mount is controlled using a control unit of my own design, based on Arduino. Accordingly, the autoguider port function and relative GO-TO are implemented.

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Comments

Smirnov Andrey

An interesting solution and quite justified for such focal lengths.

Jan 16th, 2020

malex

I tried attaching a 70mm ED lens here. The focal length was 420mm. It worked quite well. But I didn't like the ED lens. :)

Jan 16th, 2020

Ruslan

Hello. How can I get in touch with you? I'd like to learn more about your design.

Jan 22nd, 2020

malex

For more details, you can look here: https://astroscope.ua/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=13569&start=30#p65697
You can also get in touch there.

Jan 22nd, 2020

іVan YakovlєV

Scary beautiful, not scary to leave on at night?

Sep 13th, 2020

malexReply to іVan YakovlєV

I'm not leaving it out. And it's not so easy to pull this off the window. Plus, my balcony is quite far from the sidewalk, and there are thickets in front of the balcony. In short, you'd really have to make an effort to reach my setup. So for now, it seems okay.

Sep 14th, 2020