Recent content by scott mcleod jr

simply awesome. I want to try to get m42 but my tracker has been acting crazy lately

Very nice

I moved to the desert of eastern wa from Bellingham on the coast (cloudiest city in the continental us) I feel your pain ☺

Aurora was an accident lol. I was messing with star trails and i noticed i had about five shots like that. Canon 5dmii on tripod for the aurora. And the milky way was with my barndoor tracker with 5dmii 21 x 3 min shots at 6400 iso using 17mm f/4 lens edited in Lightroom and Photoshop stacked...

Lets talk astrophotos. Anyone got some amazing shots or good advice Here's my recent stuff http://pearsonportraits.smugmug.com/Scotts-Stars/n-VGmHG/

Here's a pic I have from last weekend from out at jump off joe, Kennewick wa. 21x 3min exposures with canon 5dmii at 6400 iso with 17mm at f/4 Edited in Lightroom/Photoshop cs5 and stacked in star stax http://pearsonportraits.smugmug.com/Scotts-Stars/n-VGmHG/i-GRJdfDM/A

Finished build three of the barn door tracker. I've been able to track up to 10 min so far with absolutely no trails ☺

Yeah I agree. I looked for individual grit sizes on ebay and Amazon they were expensive.

Get some sleep lol

Perfect! Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

It has held up to 9 lbs without any noticable effect on the system and the motor has a mount but I am waiting to perma fasten it till I solve the gear slippage problem. The primary problems are slipage of the gear to motor connection and the other gear rising up off of the platform...

Thanks for your detailed assistance this far as a physics teacher and astrophysics minor some engineering problems can slip me up lol. I had to build the foucault testers while making a telescope mirror.

It is 1/4 and has a flat I tried to rig it with a piece of plastic in the hole, it looks tight but whenever it has even a little resistance it starts slipping. I am not super familiar with rigging gears I was also having trouble coming up with a way to keep the red gear stable (it does start to...