Equipment
The rig as it is now, then how it got here. Each session in the diary shows the kit it was really taken with, worked out from these dates.
Now
- Telescope
- Sky-Watcher 150P
- Newtonian reflector
- 150 mm aperture
- 750 mm focal length, f/5
Source: telescopeyoke config.toml [scope]; the diary's about.md
- Mount
- Sky-Watcher EQ3 Pro GoTo
- Equatorial, motorised, with a SynScan handset
- Unguided: no guide camera
Source: the diary, 3 October; the diary's about.md
- Camera
- Altair Hypercam 183C On loan from a friend
- Colour sensor (RGGB, from the FITS headers)
- Binned 2×2: 1.32″ a pixel, as logged
Source: the diary, 3 October; FITS headers; depth.json plate scale
- Computer
- Laptop beside the tripod
- Runs telescopeyoke, with Claude driving
Source: the diary, 3 October
- Webcam
- Webcam on the telescope
- Photographs the telescope during every move
Source: the diary, 3 October
- Focuser
- Motor focuser
- 28BYJ-48 stepper, 5 V, with a ULN2003 driver
- Arduino Nano V3 clone
- Printed bracket and coupler
- £30.03 in parts
Source: the diary, 12 October
How it changed
The telescope comes home, with a borrowed camera and the laptop to drive it
Joined: Sky-Watcher 150P, Sky-Watcher EQ3 Pro GoTo, Altair Hypercam 183C, Laptop beside the tripod
A webcam to watch the telescope move, after a slew caught the handset
Joined: Webcam on the telescope
telescopeyoke v0.1.0 released
telescopeyoke v0.2.0 released
telescopeyoke v0.2.1 released
Motor focuser fitted, replacing focusing by hand
Joined: Motor focuser
Software releases come from telescopeyoke's own tags. There is no autoguiding: the mount runs unguided, so no session shows a guiding figure.