[Robert Ian Henderson]

Fantastic offer! Please send me one (or two if it’s not being too greedy!)
Robert Henderson

[Robert Ian Henderson]

It had to be bad science or spiders in the waveguide.

[Robert Ian Henderson]

I did something similar (if cruder) in February to find out where my polar axis was pointing.
I took a sequence of images of the NCP region using a (shutterless!) Audine camera with a 135mm lens at f/3.5.  The image shows the sum of 10 images taken 20 deg apart in RA.
The brightest stars in the field are Polaris ( dec = +89d 15m 50.56s ) and Lambda UMi ( +89d 02m 15.66s ).
Comparing with CdC, the centre of the circle is at about 15h 05m, +89d 53m 46s ( approx 6 arcmin E of NCP  at the time).

[Robert Ian Henderson]

Looking forward to the Russian language edition!

[Robert Ian Henderson]

My list of inspiring astronomy books has something in common with Denis Buczyinski’s.
Also, like Graham Winstanley, I spent far too long in the Picton & Brown Libraries in Liverpool browsing the astronomy and science section!

The Starry Heavens                            Ellison Hawks    1950
Suns, Myths and Men                         Patrick Moore    1954
The Boy’s Book of Astronomy             Patrick Moore    1959
The Amateur Astronomer                    Patrick Moore    1959
Norton’s Star Atlas                              Norton & Inglis   1959
Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy    L Rudeaux & G de Vaulcouleurs    1962
Making & Using a Telescope              H P Wilkins & Patrick Moore    1956
The Sun and the Amateur Astronomer    W M Baxter    1963
Radio Astronomy for Amateurs           Frank Hyde        1963
Survey of the Moon                             Patrick Moore    1963
etc, etc…

Robert

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