Recent content by Starflyer

I'm not sure whether this is the most appropriate section, if not can a mod please move for me? I've been given an Austinsuite wardrobe that's seen better days, I'd like to spend some time on it and put it back to use as it's a beautiful piece of furniture. One of the door slide supports (I'm...

I've been at it for twelve years and had an interest in both IT and photography before that, I'd say what I do now is fairly technical and processing the data is as challenging as capturing the raw images. That said, you don't have to go to the lengths I do to get a few decent images. These...

It's a composite created from a video of the ISS passing in front of the sun, taken with a special solar scope, at 17fps it took 0.9s to travel across the disc.

Thanks for the kind offer John, but I don't have the patience to grind my own mirror. If you want to find a good home for it the forum I linked to has a good few members who grind their own.

Nice images Steve, M101 & M51?

Everything is taken with the tracking mount otherwise it's hard work trying to keep even the moon in the FOV. The close-ups of the moon are taken with a Newtonian reflector with a focal length of 1200mm, with a 2x barlow lens attached that doubles that focal length, it's essentially acting as a...

Thanks to all for your kind comments on my images, in the New Year I'll start the planning and drawings for my meagre observatory. If anyone's interested; This build thread, amongst others on Star Gazers Lounge, has been my inspiration. It's more framing and construction than fine cabinet...

Thank you. Most were taken with a dedicated, cooled astronomy camera, it's monochrome and special filters allow me to 'cut through' the light pollution. The mount tracks the sky and allows me to image the same object over multiple nights, a lot of these objects are very faint and need several...

My main hobby (obsession) is taking photos of the night sky, from both my heavily light polluted garden or occasionally from darker skies when I go off camping. One of the reasons for me joining this forum is that I intend to build my own roll off roof observatory next year and I'll need plenty...

I haven't read all the way through this, I apologise if this has already been covered. As part of my day job I buy a fair amount from China and export it to the EU and US. These price increases have little to nothing to do with Brexit, we've got that to look forward to later next year. The...

Quick update... Axminster support have been great, they collected the lathe and diagnosed a faulty power / control box next day. The lathe will be delivered back to me next Wednesday, overall I've had a great support experience from axminster.

Thanks for your reply, I don't want to start pulling it apart, I've contacted Axminster support and will post back here when I have an update from them. Cheers, Ian

No, it's a variable speed lathe with simple on and off buttons and a speed dial, and however the electronics work I can hear the contactor clicking in and out when I press start and stop. I don't think anything's stuck from the sounds it's making.

Hello, First time poster here, I've searched here and on Google and can't find any suggestions to help me troubleshoot my problem. I've turned, albeit infrequently, for a few years now. I own the lathe in the subject and it's just short of a year old. I've turned a couple of bowls on it and...