march galaxies

Two good nights. Guiding averged 0.40 arc-seconds with quite small stars. Not too bad for a cheepo refractor I suppose.

sv550 with, 1.0x field flattener: 122mm f7: fl 854mm 

looking north

looking east

now with focuser

galaxy m106 and friends in canes venatici
atr533 on sv550    60x4min @ hcg100

galaxy m63 girasol in canes venatici
atr533 on sv550    52x4min @ hcg100

globular cluster m3 in canes venatici
atr533 on sv550    34x4min @ hcg100

m3 with a less in-your-face approach

 

kubuntu freeze delay

 Disable and/or remove:

• kwallet
• baloo
• kde connect

Maybe only the latter. Too lazy to go back and try.

HP z440 MEBx stuff

 To disable the statup messages concerning MEBx

AMT: Intel Management Technology

• Press F10 after power-on repeatedly to enter the BIOS Setup.
• Navigate to Advanced > Remote Management Options.
• Set Intel AMT to Disabled.
• Save changes and exit (F10)

some reprocesses

m97    gso203

m1    gso203

m106    sv550 80

 

vixen dovetail clamp

 Cheepo Vixen width dovetail plates, such as this one:

...are too narrow to fit the -equally cheepo- clamp. So we simply remove around a mm from the fixed mating surface:

z420 sata vs nvme

 We have two ssd drives:

  drive             volume                          mount
 sata III /dev/sda2         /
 nvme     /dev/nvme0n1p1    /home
 

sata III /  (530 Mb/s)

nvme /home  (2700 Mb/s)

galaxy season 2026

The beginning at least.
Went with the sv550 122mm f7. fl 854mm

Each around 36x4min with the atr 533c

m109 in ursa major

m101 in ursa major

m13 in hercules

m81 in ursa major