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Hi Martin,
Send me your postal adress and I will post them to you. There are only the two blanks no grinding powder or laps etc. My email is buczynski8166@btinternet.com
Best wishes
DenisHi Martin,
I have two 9.5 inch mirror blanks if you want them for free. One is plate glass the other pyrex. Both are 22mm thick. Let me know if you want them for the price of the postage.
Best wishes
DenisHi again James, I have now looked and found that I have:
1994 Spring Summer Fall.
1995, all four issues
1996 all four issues.
If you want them I can post them to you, let me have your postal address.
DenisHi James,
I think I amy have the magazines you are looking for. I will have to root through my study and see if I can locate them. If so you are welcome to them, maybe a full set!
Denis BuczynskiI once asked Storm about the reason his mother chose his christian name, he told be that if the baby born was a boy she wanted to call him Storm and if it was to a girl she would be named Gale. Simple!
Denis BuczynskiSuch sad news that Storm Dunlop has passed away. He was a long time friend and was always helpful. I enjoyed many occasions with him. A memorable visit in recent years when he and Dave Gavine (his lifelong friend) stayed with me in Scotland. They enjoyed each others company and sometimes bickered.It was like having Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets staying.
Storm was an expert on weather phenomena and was well known and regarded in variable star circles. He translated, from the German, the classic work “Variable Stars” by Hoffmeister, Richter and Wendal. He served as President of the BAA at a very testing and fractious time, and matters did resolve well for him. Nonetheless he did not abandoned his connection with the Association and remained a member to the end of his life. he will be missed and remembered fondly by his many friends.
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Hi Jack/ALL,
I don’t seem to be able to open the video you post about. However I assume it is the same as the 24 inch Espin Telescope that I have posted bwout on this forum and on the BAA forum at this link:
https://britastro.org/forums/search/espin+telescope
Here you can read along thread concerning the campaign to save the telescope.
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Observations this evening 20240831_01 at Tarbatness shows that UZ Boo is slightly brighter tonight at 15.87 6x90s v band images measured in Astrometrica
Denis Buczynskiobservations tonight at Tarbatness of UZ BOO show the star has faded to 16.11 measured in Astrometrica 6x60s v band 20240830.87872
Denis BuczynskiObservations tonight 20240827-28
Uz Boo#LOCATION=57 50 41.9N 03 47 53.8W H35m
#NAME DATE MAG MAGERR FILT TRANS MTYPE CNAME CMAG KNAME KMAG AIRMASS GROUP CHART NOTES
uz boo 2460550.423 16.133 0.055 v NO STD 144 13.882 121 11.561 na na X37580AA na
uz boo 2460550.424 16.127 0.053 v NO STD 144 13.893 121 11.576 na na X37580AA na
uz boo 2460550.425 15.986 0.053 v NO STD 144 13.924 121 11.584 na na X37580AA na
uz boo 2460550.426 16.248 0.066 v NO STD 144 13.907 121 11.576 na na X37580AA na
uz boo 2460550.427 16.013 0.054 v NO STD 144 13.943 121 11.606 na na X37580AA na
uz boo 2460550.428 16.046 0.056 v NO STD 144 13.922 121 11.604 na na X37580AA naObservations uploaded to VSS Database
DenisThe news that Dundee Council are proposing to close the City’s Mills Observatory is unwelcome. Perhaps BAA members can make their views know by partipipating in this online petition.
Denis Buczynski
https://www.change.org/p/mills-observatory-closure?recruited_by_id=eb79e340-1db3-11ef-832c-2386420cb3d8&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&utm_medium=copylinkAttachments:
Hello all, My comet astrometry records for the first half of this year 2024 Jan to May show that I was able to observe comets and report astrometry and photometry on 34 nights from Tarbatness in Highland Scotland at Lat 58d N. This is better than 2023 for the same period when I observed on 25 nights.All night twilight will now prevent me from comet imaging between mid May to mid August.
Denis Buczynski MPC Code I81My comet observing stats .
I came across these observing stats at the link copied below.
These are my observing stats since I came here to observe in 2011 at MPC Code I81
Apparently, according to this data list I sit at number 55 out of 1670 observing stations having observed measured and reported on 427 comets.Nr.Station All MPECs Discovery MPECs Observations
55 I81 220 19 197182011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
58 276 380 500 1374 1446 2274 1431 2135 2091 3419 2872 1462
I81 has discovered 0 objects. It has made 19718 of all 808978 observations (2 %) at 427 objects in all MPECs with involved station I81.
There are 2457 of all 87283 observations (3 %) at 110 objects in all discovery MPECs with involved station I81.Denis
Being only two years away from my 50 year membership of the BAA I am left feeling a little deflated by this anouncement of the scrapping of honorary membership by the Trustees. It is not the subscription money that I would have saved if my membership became honorary and therefore free, but it will be the lost feeling of pride and achievement that missing out on the award of an honorary membership by the Association that I have been proud to have belonged to for most of my adult life. Also I look back at the list of previous honorary members and I would have felt an extra pride that I would have joined their ranks. The sending of a certificate will not engender that same feeling of pride. I will not stop being a member of the BAA, my intention is to remain a member for the rest of my life. Now I suppose, looking forward, my main achievement may be to have an obituary published in the JBAA! I have been an active member of the BAA for almost 50 years and have participated in most of the BAA’S activities and contributed to its publications over those years. I was not asked about this decision before it was made,perhaps a rethink my be appropriate before it is sanctioned and ratified. Perhaps it is right that we recognise members who have been supportive of the BAA for so long. We are not a Association who are bereft of funds, both currently and going forward so why can’t we honour our long standing members in this way. I would be happy to send my membership fee to the BAA as a benefactor after being awarded an honorary membership.It is the recognition, by the Association, of long participation and continuous membership that is important to me not the free membership.
Denis BuczynskiHi Howard, welcome to your new role as acting coordinator for the Campaign for Dark Skies. I was in communication with Bob Mizon just prior to his death and we had agreed to offer a certificate to Northern Lighthouse Board Inverness for the work they had one in limiting the effect of the lighthouse on the penninsula that the Tarbatness Lighthouse sits. Do you have access to Bob’s email’s regarding this matter. I did leave a detailed message on the CfDS message page a few weeks ago and have not had a reply to date.
Best wishes
Denis BuczynskiIn my experience I would have fork mount any day over a GEM. The problem with cameras and ancillary equipment fouling the mount in the fork design is not a problem for Newtonian or Nasmyth designs or indeed prime focus SC’s like the Celestron RASA . Meridian flips in a GEM are amongst the most common irritations I have with my SC on a GEM. Image attached of my last large Newtonian, oh how I miss it!
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Hello all,
My observing stats for 2022 were that I was able to observe and submit comet astrometry to MPC and the BAA Comet Section on 90 nights(I don’t count the number of comets observed but some nights up to twenty individual comets are recorded). This does not include the months of May, June and July when all sky twilight does not permit observing at this (58dN) latitude.The Summer months here were cool and cloudy and the Summer heat wave that was experienced in more southerly latitudes did not extend into the Highlands of Scotland. Whilst the high pressure dominated the south there was a ribbon of cloud diverted around the high that persisted over Highland Scotland.I have yet to look at my automatic metoer camera output to get the number of detected meteors. An automatic Aurora/NLC video camera was installed here in September by Nick James, this gave excellent detection of aurora alerting me to obtain more detailed aurora images.
Denis BuczynskiA fine response to the current energy crisis by LCC. There should be a review of all excessive and unneccesary outdoor lighting used by local authorities and companies, and statutory rules limiting their use.
DenisHello Andrea, I forwarded your post about the Steinheil refractor to Bart Fried of The Antique Telescope Society. I suggest you contact him for further advice. His reply is :
Re: steinheil refractor.
Bart Fried
12/10/22 23:44
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It does, but there’s no tripod? Also, the wood block is a home-made adapter to use it on an alt-azimuth mount. But it’s a wood tube and it was almost certainly in a cradle of some sort. If I were that fellow, I’d offer 1500 Euros and see what happens.Bart
Sic itur ad astra!
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 4:13 PM denis buczynski
Bart
FYI this post came up on the BAA forum, it looks a nice example of it
type.https://britastro.org/forums/topic/antique-steinheil-muenchen-refractor
