Hi all,
This year I'll have with me a bunch of Ebony Star 4552-90 off-cuts, square, circular, strips, etc. If you are after some bearing laminate, come have a look,
Serge Antonov from Astro Devices, will be setting up with me, showing his Nexus DSC, Nexus, and a new Nexus model. The three dobs I'll have with me, 8", 12" and 17.5", will each have one of the various Nexus systems installed.
I've also come up with a neat little "Blinking paddle", which is used to spy out PN's and other nebulae. A nebula filter, OIII, UHC, Hbeta, or broadband, is wound into the hole provided, and is slid in and out from between your eye and the eyepiece, and is used to suss out the nebula in question without needing to muck around with remembering star fields and then winding and unwinding filters and interchanging eyepieces. This little tool is particularly helpful if you don't have a filter wheel or slide. I'm looking to have two models on show, the 'Mini' with just a 1.25" filter capacity, and the 'Maxi' with provision for a 1.25" and a 2" filter.
I'm very much looking forward to this year's SPSP. Come by and say hello!
Alex.