South 32° 3' 1.6" East 115° 48' 55.3
founding member of the
"FREEDOM "
Lest we forget
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A big super special astronomical
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My first major piece of astronomical equipment
Many many years ago I bought a second hand $200 Celestron comet catcher ota. Imagination and some cardboard boxes and a bit's box set as a drawer. A rifle scope set up as a finderscope with a pvc pipe holder. I saw my first galaxy with this, NGC 253, and NGC 55 was soon after. I was bit by the bug and have never looked back since..........
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here's where I go for my daily fix of astro and space info..... Space weather
click to goto.......
PYKIES GALLERY DARK SKY SITE....
HANDY SOFTWARE.... SKY SECTORS
and just walk this way to the LINKS.....
The Inner Sanctum is an amateur observatory built and maintained by me,
Stephen A. Boyd and my son Adam S. Boyd.
"The help of Rowan Pyke will always be remembered and greatly appreciated"
It's situated in the back yard and housed in a 3m x2m roll off roof shed. It was designed and built over several months and had it's first light 4th February 2006. First target was mars.
Up till then my astroimaging consisted of film work through a Minolta SRT101 SLR. It still remains in my equipment and is used for astro work .
I was introduced to CCD imaging early 2005 and am still trying to climb the ever steepening learning curve .
You also get to meet some pretty scarey people
and Mike, the worlds strongest astronomer
*feel free to copy any images for your own use,
BUT,
make sure appropriate and printed credit is given to all that you have used. All images are now Pixel Coded*
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a new nova in Scorpio.
19th Feb 2007, at 05.30hrs from my backyard. Single image from tripod with Canon 400D at 1600ASA for 30 seconds with noise reduction on. Naked eye visibility.
'Will the fun ever stop?"