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I love DIY science and astronomy projects accessible to everyone. If you are interested, read on!
Near-space photography on a weather balloon
I led a group of undergraduate students to safely launch and recover a helium balloon and photograph the Earth from ~30km altitude (3 times higher than airliners).
DIY Star tracker or "l'Appareil de Poursuite d'Etoiles"
Build this DIY star tracker for astrophotography
Detailed instructions v1 and v2
Coming soon: a Raspberry Pi-powered go-to mount!
DIY Telescope mirror making
Grinding, polishing and figuring a telescope mirror by hand!
Many thanks to the Telescope Makers' Workshop at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA
Code repository to design & test mirror, with one example.
DIY smart telescope
using a DSLR camera, a Skywatcher AZ-GTi and a Raspberry Pi.
Detecting Milky Way spiral arms with the 21cm line
using a WIFI antenna, a cheap amplifier and a software-defined radio.
Controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
DIY adjustable folding chair for telescope viewing
Amateur Astrophotography
Amateur Astrophotography
Timelapses I shot during my observing run with DESI on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory
Supernova SN2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, May 2023
The two tails of comet NEOWISE, July 2020
Seeing Mercury next to Venus (Copernicus himself is said to have never seen it)
The Orion nebula from Kitt Peak National Observatory
Milky Way at the 2019 dark sky festival in Lassen volcanic park
International space station lunar transit
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