Home SETI anyone?

kinetic (Steve) · #1 07-06-2010, 11:51 PM

Just kidding!
I thought it might be fun sharing this accident of framing.
I've been doing some timelapse stuff in recent weeks and have been
plonking the rig on roughly the same part of lawn, give or take
a metre.
The timelapse stuff works better with a terrestrial object like trees
or a house roof in it so I make sure it has something.
The stack of this set had the TV antenna pointing almost at the SCP

Steve

Octane (Humayun) · #2 08-06-2010, 12:24 AM

Steve,

I must say, your house is pretty darn well polar aligned.

Any extraneous drift will be autoguided out.

H

kinetic (Steve) · #3 08-06-2010, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Octane

Steve,

I must say, your house is pretty darn well polar aligned.

Any extraneous drift will be autoguided out.

H

LOL H,

It might also explain why most of the signal coming through the
TV antenna is incomprehensible garbage

Octane (Humayun) · #4 08-06-2010, 01:21 AM

In the new picture you added, the antenna looks like a dragonfly. Nice.

H

renormalised (Carl) · #5 08-06-2010, 10:37 AM

Darn, why didn't I think of that!!!...one surefire, easy way of aligning the scope!!!

Just have a ready made polar pointer

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #6 08-06-2010, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by renormalised

Darn, why didn't I think of that!!!...one surefire, easy way of aligning the scope!!!

Just have a ready made polar pointer

That is surely a brilliant pointer, I would consider doing something like that for quick setup. Excellent idea.