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Trackday at California Speedway
Just finished another track day at California Speedway in Fontana with Stephane. This was the fourth track day we've done at this track. Here's my favorite crash sequence - gotta love the legs in the second to last panel - ouch! -
Trackday and AMA race at Fontana
I recently did a trackday followed by an AMA race the next weekend at Fontana. They're both in the same article because I'm lazy. -
Freeriding at Ted Williams
A couple of friends from work and I took our first Saturday off in a few months to tempt fate at Ted Williams. -
Trackday at California Speedway
In March 2005 I did a trackday at California Speedway in Fontana on my motorcycle. It was my second trackday and I had a blast. -
Trackday at Streets of Willow
First trackday! Many more followed, but this is the one that started it all. [[thumb=262]] -
G11 Bearing Upgrade
This is a tutorial on replacing the bearings on the Losmandy G11 telescope mount. This may or may not improve the tracking ability. It's kind of fun to do anyway. The Losmandy G11 mount is a great piece of hardware. However, the included bearings seem to fall short when compared to the rest of [...] -
Adding A Set Screw
I have always been irritated that most adapters and extension tubes only come with a single set screw. This not only feels insecure when holding expensive eyepieces, but also allows excessive play burring astrophotography. I'm usually chicken about drilling into my equipment, but I finally added a second set screw to all my adapters and [...] -
Thailand 2001
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Astrophotography Equipment
Takahashi FS102 Refractor This Apochromatic telescope provides very sharp images with no color fringed stars. When reduced to F/5.9 you get about 3 degrees of coverage in the sky. I prefer to take pictures of large, wide field objects and this is just about the right focal length for those objects. I also use the extremely [...]