Visit to "Tiendesprong" observatory Tilburg

This evening we visited the "Tiendesprong" observatory Tilburg with a small delegation of Halley observatory. Here are some pictures of the beautiful 127mm Polarex refractor.

NEQ6 telescope mount tuning

This saturday I went with my NEQ6 mount to Astrosystems Holland. Both RA and DEC axes were removed, cleaned and readjusted. Especially the RA axis is running with almost no free-play. Before that I had a lot of free play on the RA.

Here is the removed RA wormwheel.

Right you see the NEQ6 wormwheel. Left is the much larger ALT-AT7 wormwheel.

Here's the NEQ6 with DEC axis removed.

RA stepper motor

Control board.

Greasing the worm wheel before installation.

Installation of the DEC axis.

Nice afternoon walk on the Veluwe.

This afternoon we went walking on the Veluwe. We saw many Nuthatches (Dutch: boomklever) over there.

Nice walk at the "Biesbosch"

Last Sunday we had a nice walk on the "Biesbosch". We saw many birds we never saw before, like Avocets, Godwits, Shelducks, Reed bunting, Titlark and the Stonechat.