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14 Nov 2026OpenStarShoot: Teaching an old CCD camera some new tricks
Reverse-engineering an Orion StarShoot Mono III, figuring out its USB protocol and building an open-source Linux driver.
10 Nov 2026
Nabhastala
A location-specific astronomy almanac for planning a year of observing and astrophotography, with annual visibility guides, monthly field notes and downloadable data.
29 Sept 2026
PixInsight Deep-Sky Processing Checklist
A persistent, printable field checklist for taking broadband OSC data from raw-frame screening through integration, colour calibration, restoration and final export.
13 Sept 2026
The Birds They Saw
A living collection connecting historical art of Australian birds, their names then and the names that describe those birds today.
5 Sept 2026
RGB565 Colour Reference
Pick an ordinary RGB colour and get its TFT-friendly RGB565 value, reproduced colour and ready-to-paste Arduino constant.
1 Sept 2026Explore
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Lightning Warning Box
A field warning box built around a XIAO ESP32-C6 and AS3935, with a local display and alarm first, and networking added only after the basic warning path behaved itself.
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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
A much later step up from the first-light chaos: deep integration on the Rho Ophiuchi region, with an actual rig, actual planning, and dramatically less improvisation.
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