Hello from Pieksämäki, Finland
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:32 pm
Hello everyone!
I'm 50 years old amateur astronomer, been amateur since 1973 or something, I do not remember the exact date when it hit. Living now near Pieksämäki - 3085 km to South from North pole.
Quick amateur astronomy history:
- 1979 got first scope RET-35.
- 1981 Membership Astronomical Society Ursa ry.
- 1982 I bought bigger scope RET-45.
- 1982 start grinding Big 6" mirror.
- 1987 I finished 6" mirror, and moved grinding even bigger 8" mirror!
- 1994 8" mirror is redy, and is Superb 8" F5.2 still in use.
- 2005 I built a 10" F7 backyard observatory for video imaging planets and Moon. Registax was a Thing at that time!
- 2005 I bought Canon350D and IR modified it to imagine deepsky targets, the universe looked gorgeous.
- 2010 I got used StarlightXpress MX716 , and I made my first brightness measurements. I reported results to AAVSO. UX Uma and TT Ari was new and amazing things in my world!
- 2012 completed my second backyard observatory (current workhorse) dedicated to variable stars, comets and asteroids: Roll off roof observatory, remotely (30m from my house) controled ASA DDM60, SPX300F4 and Atik 314L+. I needed a simple hardware (no guide scope, no PHD ... nothing extra) less is more. ASA was awkward get to work (I'm not a software buddy - far from that) When I got ASA to cooperate, life is easy, just lit it on, run to the reference - and start your obs. When the temperature drops below -30 (Not every year, but maybe every 1 to 3 year is these cold periods) ASA starts to complain (Dec axes jamming) and needs additional heating, then it rocks again.
-2016 I was run HADS project observations (time series) in V2455Cyg, I came across a new eclipsing variable, the new variable is not unusual, but this was where it should have been found a long time ago. 56" from V2455Cyg, V-mag 9.982 B-V 0.113, an ideal calibration star, if you'r doing V2455Cyg - and no one had noticed! Took me more than a year to sort out period 12.552455d +/- 0.014531. I was thinking of continuing the investigation by studying spectrum of the system 000-BMD-527.
2018- So I bought Alpy 600. And Now I'm here to learn new things, and because I'm in trouble with ISIS software.
I write English with google translator, if you wonder strange expressions
Nice to meet you - spectroscope people!
Timo Kantola
Pieksämäki, Finland.
I'm 50 years old amateur astronomer, been amateur since 1973 or something, I do not remember the exact date when it hit. Living now near Pieksämäki - 3085 km to South from North pole.
Quick amateur astronomy history:
- 1979 got first scope RET-35.
- 1981 Membership Astronomical Society Ursa ry.
- 1982 I bought bigger scope RET-45.
- 1982 start grinding Big 6" mirror.
- 1987 I finished 6" mirror, and moved grinding even bigger 8" mirror!
- 1994 8" mirror is redy, and is Superb 8" F5.2 still in use.
- 2005 I built a 10" F7 backyard observatory for video imaging planets and Moon. Registax was a Thing at that time!
- 2005 I bought Canon350D and IR modified it to imagine deepsky targets, the universe looked gorgeous.
- 2010 I got used StarlightXpress MX716 , and I made my first brightness measurements. I reported results to AAVSO. UX Uma and TT Ari was new and amazing things in my world!
- 2012 completed my second backyard observatory (current workhorse) dedicated to variable stars, comets and asteroids: Roll off roof observatory, remotely (30m from my house) controled ASA DDM60, SPX300F4 and Atik 314L+. I needed a simple hardware (no guide scope, no PHD ... nothing extra) less is more. ASA was awkward get to work (I'm not a software buddy - far from that) When I got ASA to cooperate, life is easy, just lit it on, run to the reference - and start your obs. When the temperature drops below -30 (Not every year, but maybe every 1 to 3 year is these cold periods) ASA starts to complain (Dec axes jamming) and needs additional heating, then it rocks again.
-2016 I was run HADS project observations (time series) in V2455Cyg, I came across a new eclipsing variable, the new variable is not unusual, but this was where it should have been found a long time ago. 56" from V2455Cyg, V-mag 9.982 B-V 0.113, an ideal calibration star, if you'r doing V2455Cyg - and no one had noticed! Took me more than a year to sort out period 12.552455d +/- 0.014531. I was thinking of continuing the investigation by studying spectrum of the system 000-BMD-527.
2018- So I bought Alpy 600. And Now I'm here to learn new things, and because I'm in trouble with ISIS software.
I write English with google translator, if you wonder strange expressions
Nice to meet you - spectroscope people!
Timo Kantola
Pieksämäki, Finland.