Trying out Sharpcap’s Platesolving features which one you get the hand of the way of working it, works really well. I like that it fills the name of the target you have platesolved to and that name gets added to the file structure on your drive, so when it comes to writing up the observing log, all the files are in their respective folders. Still not wildly happy with the focus routine. It’s not…

or What 13 years in a drafty observatory does to your telescope. The answer to this is not good. The two previous iterations of the my observatory were drafty. They were both designed to allow lots of air movement inside to discourage mould, but the problem was that we are on top of a moorland hull, rain and mist got driven inside it when it was windy. The gaps in the decking floor and…