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The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 22...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2024/01/30/rosette-nebula/

Recently upgraded my main telescope (refractor) and now have a little better quality for image capture, and have been working on post processing skills. Now we just need the clouds to stay away. ...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2023/11/11/been-busy-with-some-backyard-astrophotography/

Had a couple of days without clouds, and got to have a bit of a play editing up some more photos. The Triffid Nebula is around 4100 light years from earth and rather small at only 25 light years ...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2022/07/28/m20-trifid-nebula/

We have been slowly collecting the bits and pieces needed to allow us to take astrophotography images from the backyard over the last couple of months and last night, the weather, school holidays...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2022/07/11/m8-lagoon-nebula/

Recently we got a new telescope and fancy GOTO electronic mount. A SkyWatcher EQ6R. The mount has a 2pin GX12 power connector on it, and I was looking for a source of the connector to make a seco...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2022/06/13/skywatcher-2pin-dc-power-connector/

I recently upgraded the shack radios to a pair of newer Icom’s, Both a 7300 and a 9700. (The IC9100 has become a backup) The 9700 has become the primary VHF/UHF contest radio here, and with thi...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2022/06/13/3d-printed-leo-bodnar-mini-gps-bracket-for-icom-ic-9700/

3D Printing an Anderson Powerpole Plug for the FT817 The post FT-817ND Anderson PowerPole 3D Printed Plug appeared first on VK3BQ .

http://www.vk3bq.com/2020/12/27/ft-817nd-anderson-powerpole-3d-printed-plug/

Over 25 years of poorly built and installed antennas, i have finally achieved #DXCC with 100 confirmed countries on Ham Radio. In the last couple of months with Covid19 Lockdown in Australia, i r...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2020/10/02/dxcc/

The trusty SARK-110 was dragged out to check an antenna the other day, and as usual, a cross check of the website to verify and update the firmware Released in March 2020. V0.10.19(b) is the late...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2020/09/13/sark110-firmware-v0-10-19b/

I wrote a post in august 2017 lamenting the power output woes of my IC9100 radio, problems with the Blade fuses getting VERY warm and causing voltage drop. I thought I had solved he issue with cl...

http://www.vk3bq.com/2020/09/12/fixing-icom-hf-ic-9100-low-power-output-problems-once-and-for-all/