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Bringing Refreshing Views of the planets and deep space with camera and notebook from a garden observatory.
Mark Radice is an amateur astronomer and photographer based near Salisbury in England (a stone’s throw from Stonehenge) with a passion for observing the night sky.
He started actively observing using a borrowed pair of binoculars when comet Hyakutake crossed the sky in [too many years ago now!] and now enjoys using his own equipment from a garden observatory.
Astronomical interests include high resolution lunar and planetary imaging; live stacking the deep sky; sketching and binocular observing - all with a cup of tea. Surprisingly, he was shortlisted for the 2021 AstroPhotography of the Year competition.
Mark writes for Astronomy Now; enjoys visiting dark skies and star parties in the UK and overseas; and writes too infrequently on his own blog at www.refreshingviews.com.
Mark Radice is an amateur astronomer and photographer based near Salisbury in England (a stone’s throw from Stonehenge) with a passion for observing the night sky.
He started actively observing using a borrowed pair of binoculars when comet Hyakutake crossed the sky in [too many years ago now!] and now enjoys using his own equipment from a garden observatory.
Astronomical interests include high resolution lunar and planetary imaging; live stacking the deep sky; sketching and binocular observing - all with a cup of tea. Surprisingly, he was shortlisted for the 2021 AstroPhotography of the Year competition.
Mark writes for Astronomy Now; enjoys visiting dark skies and star parties in the UK and overseas; and writes too infrequently on his own blog at www.refreshingviews.com.
Lightweight, Affordable, 3D printed parallelogram mount
Homemade 3D printed parallelogram mount for binocular observing
www.patreon.com/RefreshingViews
Build instructions: www.refreshingviews.com/parallelogram-mount-3d-printed-lightweight/
STF files are on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:6745498
Here are the links to the hardware I ordered:
• Pack of various M6 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/4diLZHc
• M6x100 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3SLaF2C
• M6 stainless steel washers amzn.to/3WZNowI
• Pack of M8x50 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3LXokjA
• Pack of M8x110 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3M2Qs4G
• M8 stainless steel washers amzn.to/3yxTH14
• Nylon tipped screws - I could not find thumbscrews with nylon tips so bought these and epoxied this to a 3D printed thumbscrew: amzn.to/3WJdN07
• 3/8 UNC serrated flange nut amzn.to/3MftkQs
• 2-part Araldite epoxy amzn.to/3YzUzwK
• 3D printer PETG filament amzn.to/3YGT0Nn
• Aluminium tubing www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192990852151?var=493194958892
I mounted these on my elderly Triton tripod from Telescope Express in Germany. Alas it looks like this is out of production but it does look remarkably similar to: www.teleskop-express.de/en/phototripods-and-binomounts-97/phototripods-without-head-292/omegon-titania-800-aluminum-photo-tripod-13196 . My lightweight travel tripod was a bit too flimsy with the long moment arms so please do chose an appropriate tripod; bearing in mind the overall weight and long moments of this setup.
www.patreon.com/RefreshingViews
Build instructions: www.refreshingviews.com/parallelogram-mount-3d-printed-lightweight/
STF files are on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:6745498
Here are the links to the hardware I ordered:
• Pack of various M6 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/4diLZHc
• M6x100 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3SLaF2C
• M6 stainless steel washers amzn.to/3WZNowI
• Pack of M8x50 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3LXokjA
• Pack of M8x110 stainless steel fasteners and nuts amzn.to/3M2Qs4G
• M8 stainless steel washers amzn.to/3yxTH14
• Nylon tipped screws - I could not find thumbscrews with nylon tips so bought these and epoxied this to a 3D printed thumbscrew: amzn.to/3WJdN07
• 3/8 UNC serrated flange nut amzn.to/3MftkQs
• 2-part Araldite epoxy amzn.to/3YzUzwK
• 3D printer PETG filament amzn.to/3YGT0Nn
• Aluminium tubing www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192990852151?var=493194958892
I mounted these on my elderly Triton tripod from Telescope Express in Germany. Alas it looks like this is out of production but it does look remarkably similar to: www.teleskop-express.de/en/phototripods-and-binomounts-97/phototripods-without-head-292/omegon-titania-800-aluminum-photo-tripod-13196 . My lightweight travel tripod was a bit too flimsy with the long moment arms so please do chose an appropriate tripod; bearing in mind the overall weight and long moments of this setup.
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great video - many thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating thanks :) (catching up with your back catalogue!)
Just popping in to say thanks for the vid, my next challenge is a mosaic at the moment. Your tutorial here has been excellent
So glad you enjoyed it! Clear skies and good luck with your mosaic.
@@RefreshingViews it's a bit frustrating doing mosaic. Using Microsoft ICE, but cant get my head around how to set the pattern grid to get the proper sequence of images. Mosaics come out a bit random and back to front. I've some lovely sections with great seeing conditions using a 8se with a 2.25 barlow captured with a ZWO385, so that's all good. Your tutorial simplifies the wavelet stage, as you say, a black art! Thanks anyway, good video
You could've stuck a cheap pair of Lidl 10x50s on there, Mark! Nice work though. Greetings from Devizes.
Good call, Bruce although my Lidl binos went out of collimation ages ago. In meantime, how are you? Long time no see. Are you still observing and hunting down your variable stars?
Stunning lunar shots :)
Thanks Andy! Gosh that video was a long time ago. Great place and well recommended. Hope you are well!
Another great video Mark, well done.
Glad you enjoyed it, Peter. Hope you and the SeeStar are well.
@@RefreshingViews we are both doing very well.
Absolutely fantastic! Once I used binoculars with a parallelogram mount, and easily shared the exact view with others - It completely changed my opinion on using binoculars. It became one of the easiest and more enjoyable ways of using a pair with decent apeture and magnification.
Glad it was helpful! And yes, I agree. Kat and I had a great time swapping views using the parallelogram mount. Lovely wide field of view in complete comfort.
Brilliant!
Thank you, Andreas.
Ooh, nice one Mark. Might have to build myself one and bring to Kelling.
Go for it - they are great fun and so simple to use. Let me know how you get on.
Great job❤
Thank you 😄
Canon 15x or 18x IS binos?? Guess you need a mount as they’re hefty? Bino bandit…. Nice!
Hi Peter - these are the 15x50 with bino bandit and the canon tube extensions as mini-dew shields. They're not too hefty especially when you use the IS but it's lovely to use them on the mount as you can observe without fatiguing arms and neck. Great fun!
Starts off with 1 inch aluminium tubing and then “it’s all metric”! Great idea though. Bringing it to Kelling?
Ah but that was really 25.4mm diameter!! Alas I am not going to Kelling this year as I seem to have inadvertently booked a trip to Namibia instead! Are you still booked in?
"For those in America using medieval measuring systems..." So funny 🤣
Glad you enjoyed it!
nice job.... bits ordered
Fantastic - I am getting ready to upload the CAD files shortly - post to follow.
Deep Sky Dad, Slovenia
What a great video! I hate it when there is so few videos like this! I'm just a beginner and sometimes i get frustrated trying to capture Saturn.. i have much to learn haha. Subscribed to your channel! 🙌🏼🖖🏼. Thank you for this video! Have a clear sky!
Glad you enjoyed it and wishing you clear skies by reply.
Awesome vid. I’m watching this countless times. Have you ever had the align not work? I had it work the first time in photoshop and then fail every time after. Quite frustrating but I’m still trying…
Thank you for your kind words. My align works ok. It took ages but solved it eventually. I hope you can get it to work ok.
Thanks for the great video!
Thank you!
buying gear comes with cloud cover.. That totally checks out.
It really does doesn't it? Defo born in the wrong country with all this cloud cover.
Thanks for another great review Mark! I have an AM5 setup with my AP Traveler but added the AM3 a year ago for my RedCat61 WIFD. I use it with the pier extension, filter wheel and ASI2600MM and find it to be totally reliable and robust. I have also added exercise weights in to the fabric basket. I have been amazed at how good the autoguiding has been in conjunction with the ASI220MM and have tested exposures at 5 and 10 minutes giving me pinpoint stars. I have never been so relaxed setting up an evening run of 10 min exposures (currently trying to shoot the Squid Nebula) on the occasional clear evening in the UK :) 100% recommend!
Glad you are enjoying your mount. They do some to perform well don't they? Good luck shooting the squid - not easy with these skies!
Amazing
Cheers!
Thank you
You are welcome!
A decent aperture solar scope is undoubtedly the best but comes at a price. I have just started my solar journey and found that a Hershel wedge in conjunction with a Baader solar continuum filter to be a good introduction.
That sounds a good approach. As you say different setups with different budgets with differing results.
Another reason why I like Interstellarum Deep sky is that for each object is written what is the best filter to use
Yes that is a good point. And they make the writing bolder for the easier to see objects. It is a lovely atlas isn't it? I am thinking of getting the accompanying guide book too.
How did you securely fit the extension pier onto the Innorel tripod ? I got the same setup, but the bottom plate of the extension pier does not go all the way down on the tripod slot to be securely latched?
That's strange. I bought one of the aluminium mount things and that fits in the tripod perfectly.
Love your garden observatory.
Thank you - defo my happy place!
There is a terrible beauty in the way a cosmic body arrives at the end of the line. But by its final breath, it creates an influence on everything around it that will continue to influence and change the 'world' around it for untold ages to come. Something that every human being wishes it could do.
What lovely words. I like that, thank you.
Hi adam sandler, i'm a big fan, and i'm glad you have interests for astronomy too, i have to say that what you captured is fascinating
Cheeky but funny thank you!
Hey thanks for this, im getting back into astro and loving my trusty old (modded!) first gen A7s, and seeing this motivated me to try the ASCOM driver for it, yay it work! So thanks again
Glad you got it to work. It's great isn't it?
Yes, it just works! Did a video the other night, will post soon
Excellent 👍 That software is unbelievable
It's great isn't it - and so well priced!
Learn so much from you. Many thanks from Denmark
Cheers - and wishing you clear skies in Denmark.
Thanks for the video Mark. Your work is awesome and you provide great intros for newer folks like me. Do you happen to know what brand your fishing bag is? It looks like a great gear bag for Astro.
It’s by a brand called Dr Fish. There’s a link in the video description to the Amazon store (if you want to see more details) and yes it’s really useful. I have all my accessories in it so I just grab one bag. Oh and thanks for signing up on patreon - really appreciated. Thank you!
Good job, très bon tutorial ,clair et précis, felicitations.
Merci, Yves. Clear skies to you!
I have been studding up on TH-cam video's on solar imaging and processing, I have a PST40 solar scope, and I have been using my DSLR 1300D and a ZWO120 MC PRO. I noticed in your video right at the start when you load up FireCapture and get the sun on screen I noticed a gradient I have the same thing with my 120 and I cant seem to get rid of it. Any clues? I have tried expos,' gain, moved camera in and out. I have been using AstroSurface for my stacking and processing because you can do everything in one program even enhancement, I reckon it is going to king of the heap in the near future. I have watched other videos of yours but I have not noticed that gradient before. Cheers Robert Aust'
I suggest reading up on solar flats. I’m inherently lazy so don’t normally bother but did make a flat panel from frosted plastic (from a cereal packet IIRC). This helps evenly illuminate the field of view despite differences from the etalon.
Cheers from Santa Barbara and Glendora, CA!. Thanks so much for sharing your build. My brother and I each made our own parallelogram mount based on your video. Fun to build and such a game changer for astronomical binocular viewing.
That's fantastic, David. Wishing you clear skies with your new mounts.
Who are you talking to?
Excellent video. Many of these are in my kit. Love the goose neck red clip on light for sketching or journaling. Here in the high desert of Nevada, I haven't needed any dew heaters (yet). I like the idea of the fishing bag to organize (I have similar bags full of guns, ammo, hearing protection...lol its a western USA thing); I may have to repurpose one. My cold weather gear is similar- goose down pants, coat, etc. I do have a heavy hooded North Face fleece jacket that is my official observing coat- many pockets and festooned with astro patches. I am on my 4th spiral ring notebook- Date, location, weather, moon/sun info, equipment used, targets, sketches, notes, etc. Very handy to see what was going on a year or two previously at the same time. It also correlates with my computer astrophotography files that are organized by "equipment configuration" (scope, camera ) and have dates of each target data set. Keep up the great work! Clear skies!
Come now Mark, we all know it's them aliens again 👽👽.
I wish it was! Alas more space junk!
I bought one as a portable set-up for travelling before seeing your review because my SkyWatcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro lacks stability, payoad capability and GoTo. I am not criticisng the SW SA2i, it's just that I wanted to go beyond standard camera imaging once I realised how much a tracker helps with DSLR / Mirrorless astrphotography. I now have an 80mm f/6.25 refractor with automatic focusing, a colour CMOS camera and a guide scope + camera on top all linked to ZWO's ASiAir Mini , all of which are handled well by the mount. The AM3 was a natural selection to go with the rest of my ZWO ASi set-up. The mount was delivered promptly by FLO but today is the first time I shall be able to test it (as long as the skies clear). I already had a suitably rated portable power supply and relevant cables for the rest of the kit so that wasn't an issue for me. I didn't buy ZWO's carbon fibre tripod or the pier extension (although I may add that in due course) as I have a nice sturdy carbon fibre tripod from 3-Legged-Thing that has a 20Kg payload.
Interesting Mark, nice overview of some necessary equipment. The selection of red lights and star charts are individualistic, if I can say it that way. I have so many different versions. I’ve been using sky safari since its inception being a Mac/apple user. But they are missing a lot of objects and there are many errors. I wish they’d focus on the content clean up rather than changing the interface for a next version. Red lights, I must have a dozen headlamps and hand held lights. Hard to find the right version that has just the right amount of light and is controllable without a PhD. I hope you’re doing well. We’ve (Vermonters, not me) seen flooding now 2 years in a row on the same day! Climate change is hitting us hard.
Great fun picking all the accessories isn’t it? It gives us something to do on the cloudy nights. I was reading that Sky Safari just buy their object database rather than produce their own so the errors are perpetuated. Sorry to hear about the flooding - not much fun at all. We can’t be surprised as scientists have been warning us the weather will get worse for the last fifty years or so!
Also can you link to your patreon in the description?
I think it’s there - I’ll check in a mo. In the meantime: www.patreon.com/RefreshingViews.
I would say that an observing chair is probably the most important purchase after the mount and telescope. Its a revelation (and adjustable elevation) Deepsky Atlas has targets identified by aperture too which is nice and also has a companion which has sketches of many of the targets. Sketxhing is delightful, dont worry about being good either. Mine are awful, but they are recognisable. My only contributions is a large thermos mug for tea and a secret stash of chocolate biscuits to help keep warm. I find Aldi's chocolate oaties to have their flavour particularly improved by starlight.
Good points all round koomber and yes defo agree with snacks and biscuits. Sounds like I had better go round Aldi again!
15:01 to 15:08 subtitles: Ah, so that's how that problem is sorted. xD
Went a wee bit Michael Jackson there
Sounds like Bo Selecta!!
Excellent video Mark. I love the idea of using glow in the dark tape on eyepiece caps and other locations on your mount etc. How long do they glow for and do they need re-energising through the night?
They last for ages - and as the glow lessens your eyes are becoming more dark adapted so they’re still visible.
Angry Canadian’s? Do they even know how to get angry in Canada? Maybe ask Chris and Shane the next time on their podcast. 😂
It sounds like a Zen riddle "If a Canadian gets angry whilst observing on his own, who does he apologise to?"
I’ll defo pass the question on!! I don’t envy the bitter winters, black flies, mosquitoes, forest fires and scorching summers.
Realise this is from a few months ago but just came across it. In it you talk about hopping between moon processing software programs (Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax). If you don't want to have to do that why not try Astrosurface? (which has wavelets too) or if you want an "all in one" then since v4.1 last December Sharpcap now does absolutely everything - it even has Wavelets too (and an even better contrast enhancer too).
Thanks for that - I’ve yet to use Astro surface. I’ll look it up - particularly as the planets are now returning.
Rigel starlite torches, dual colour and very dimmable. I’d invest in some glow in the dark paint to add tiny dots to help find stuff and orientation yourself eg glowtec. Clear plastic sheets (eg cut open document wallets) to keep the dew off the star atlas (unless you’ve got a waterproof one!), clipped on to stop them blowing away. Mini binder clips to hold things together, mark your page in an atlas/sketch book, make led lights etc etc etc. Muck Arctic sport or skeetex boots, makes observing on damp grass bearable. Dim red flashing led marker lights homemade with a coin cell, resistor and a small insulated binder clip to hold it together, in a little clear plastic bags to help mark where things are so you don’t trip over them. Glow tape/paint/ glow in the dark plastic “stones” for fish tanks/ tritium fishing “isotopes” can also work. A coat with deep pockets is good to store things you need and keep them warm, DryRobe does a good job and has a big hood as well. I see you’ve got foam rubber round metal scope tubes, to stop them getting cold to the touch!. A Sky quality meter is useful to give you a way to track “how good a night or location) is, especially if you observe from different location. Found a clear ended ballpoint pen with an orange led light in the tip which can be helpful when making notes.
Loads of great stuff here! We should do a video on household stuff adapted for astronomy.
@@RefreshingViews …and for everything else there’s the 3D printer. Filter holders, finder brackets, bino dew shields, tripod adapter, eyecups, astro torches
Lived in Canada and Britain, and managed to be miserable and warm in both countries in winter. 70% of Canadians live in a region that is the Northern United States latitude, so location is a big qualifier when they whine about cold…😅.
I don’t envy the bitter winters, black flies, mosquitoes, forest fires and scorching summers. Maybe damp mild England isn’t so bad after all!!
👍 Thanks.
You're welcome
Once, whilst searching the internet for chairs to observe on, I searched google for Observing Stools - not the results I was hoping for :-)
Oh my goodness! That must have been a sight.