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Ozzzy's Place Astronomy Stuff Astrophotos The HEQ5 Project
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My Equipment
My C8/HEQ5 setup
My Imaging setup
My home-made anti-dew heaters
My new collimation knobs
Controlling focusing
A proper counterweight
My PWM motorized focus controller
My 'all-in-one' control box for my CGE
My 'no circuit board' 2-speed focus controller
My home-made focus motor bracket
My home-made observing flashlight
My home-made cheap observer's chair
Affordable 12v power in the field
Piggy-back camera adapter
Power to the people (Rajiva Upgrade package)
Power to the people part deux (Serial/Parallel)
Feeling the power
My Canon Rebel shutter releases
My 5v power supply for a USB 2.0 hub
The HEQ5 Project pages
Page 2. The HEQ5 arrives (description) Page 3. Setup in the field Page 4. Updates and fixes Page 5. The price Page 6. The finished mount My HEQ5 upgrade pages
New HEQ5 counterweight shaft Running power to heaters with the C8 on the HEQ5 Installing the Rajiva MCU update Installing the Conrad gears Smoothing out the azimuth adjustment Illuminating the polar scope Adding a 'menu' button to the Synta/Rajiva hand controller Re-building the crappy hand-controller A breakout box for serial, focus and ST-4 A Canon DSLR shutter control addon-board A breakout/heater control PCB for the Rajiva MCU A new set of azimuth adjusting knobs No more setscrews! Simple worm engagement in the RA axis. Fixing relay 'noise' and general bad engineering Attempting to fix spontaneous MCU resets New tripod legs for the HEQ5 mount My HEQ5 'howto' pages
Setting the HEQ5's polar scope's 'slide rule' Using the polar alignment scope PEC training The updated handpaddle menus Adjusting worm engagement Relubricating/adjusting the HEQ5 declination axis Relubricating/adjusting the HEQ5 RA axis Adjusting the worm gears for end float Readying the HEQ5 for cold climates My HEQ5 Linux software pages Miscellaneous pages Miscellaneous
Aligning a fork/wedge mounted telescope
My list so far
The Moon's terminator
Jupiter
Equipment makers and vendors
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
London Centre - RASC
The Planetary Society
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Ozzzy's astronomy scripts and other stuff
DAR Astro
My Mandrake Linux Site
A novel Gtk2 MP3 player for Linux
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