Birds Astronomy Site

Location: Canberra, Australia (149.22E, 35.28S)

Image Gallery

Lunar Mars Jupiter Saturn

5th October 2007
My best images of 2007 (so far)
16th August 2007
Construction of my observatory at Murrumbateman
3rd April 2007
calculating focal length from plate scale
28 December 2006
Saturn image from our home at Murrumbateman
23rd January 2006
Images of my new 13.1" scope.
28th November 2005
New 9kg counterweight for my G-11 from Mick Pinner.
10th November 2005
Remote Control system that I built for my 10" f/6 newtonian.
8th November 2005
Effect of thermal instability of high res imaging.
A set of videos that demonstrate how important thermal equilibrium is for planetary imaging.
8th November 2005
The 4-port Temperature Logger I built for measuring mirror and ambient temperatures around my scope.
17th October 2005
Version 3 of Birds Newt Cooler, a new design.
23rd may 2005
Birds Ideal Astronomy Camera
22nd March 2005
Cooling a Newtonian, a saga in four parts:
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4

These people and companies made components that I am currently using on my scope

I have written a few small utilities that helped make my ife a bit easier. Here they are, in case they help you too.

ppmcentre - A tool for centering images in BMP or FIT image files and (optionally) cropping the files to minimise wasted space.
fixfits - A program to fix up error in FIT files created by Registax.