Thanks MaGiK,
The same back my friend, it's been a pleasure and honor to chat with you and everyone here for the last 5 years or so.
I just saw your post, and it was like "A picture update L" and that's it!!! I guess that was a typo
Yeah, that was my first attempt to use my tablet to post something here and I've decided they are not well suited for that task. I hate trying to type on the touch screen keyboard.
It reduces me from
120 WPM to
2 WPM with
118 MPM (Mistakes Per Minute).
Plus I was at the
Bar between games of
Foosball trying to get it posted before next match, which took less time than doing that post.
It was a nice camping trip we had, although not without its "
adventures".
The friend that owns the cabin
(not pictured), had gone up before Mike and I did on the 4th and when he unlocked and flipped the main
240V 180Amp breaker to On, it shorted out to the breaker box
back panel and melted a hole in the box and started the wall it was mounted on to catch
fire!
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He got the fire out before much damage was done, but had to have power company shut off power at the line so Mike and I could replace the whole breaker box and breaker with new ones we brought with us.
Since it was a Holiday weekend, power could not be restored until following Friday.
So we "
roughed" it out with flashlights and oil lanterns and gas grill cooking. I Thank the makers of multi-LED flashlights, otherwise the batteries would not have lasted.
Mike is a "
Chief" and master at cooking many delicious entrees with only the basics available to cook with. He obviously loves his work, lol
(who orders food from a skinny Chief???).
Not having power for the refrigerator meant we had to cook everything before it went bad.
I really hated having to eat all those gigantic Shrimp tails wrapped in Bacon and stir fried rice.
Sadly, we only had one night that was free of rain, lightning and clouds to use the telescope. We are planning another high country camping trip for next month when we go to
Crystal Park
to dig for some
Gems during the daytime, and hopefully spot some during the nights with the Scope.
Before that trip, we plan to add some updates to the scope:
New 2" Crayford Dual rate Focuser (Gold color).
https://focuser.com/cgi-bin/whmexec.cgi ... y=3.00&e=h
2 detachable pneumatic wheels and lift bars on the base so it can be wheeled around instead of carried.
Alt-Azimuth computer drive stepper motors for auto-tracking and "Go-to" capabilities (so we can actually look at intended target without getting side tracked by everything else we can now see).
Digital eyepiece Color Camera-->USB Laptop screen, so no more taking turns at eyepiece and refocusing required.
A couple of new 2" eyepieces (currently uses 1.25" that we both have sets of. Adapter comes with Crayford), with one being a variable zoom power so eliminates need to change eyepieces. (hopefully?)
Possibly a new paint scheme since it has a new life/beginning now.
Some Red LED's on base edges/corners so no one trips on it in the dark anymore! Despite being that big, it is very hard to see it at 3:00Am.
Have scar on shin to prove it now.
If you (or anyone) is ever in the area, let me know and would love to meet and show around.
Have to go now and finish some coding and documents, take care, Robert.
, (the one on the left). 
