Outdoors

  • Trying to bridge the RS232 port on my Meade LX200 8” telescope to WiFi using a WiFi serial bridge. Frustrating.
  • Should this serial port be 9600,7,n,1 or 8,n,1? Remembering how much this stuff used to suck.
  • Example IP address in WiFi-Serial bridge 123.456.789.222. Uh huh.
  • “No response from mount.” Enough RS232 fun for today. Will try again.

Lunar Eclipse 2015

We had a fun night in our neighborhood tonight watching the lunar eclipse with a number of our neighbors. I got out the 70-200/f2.8L and put the 2x doubler on it to see what I could capture on my camera. Really brings the red out.

Blood-red full moon glowing orange against a completely dark night sky during a total lunar eclipse.