THE MOON

I took some more shots of the moon. This time without using the objective which gave a better result. You can find it below. I did some further tries by taking photos of JUPITER and his MOONS. In that night we had a very good seeing so I could identify the different colours on the surface and clearly see his moons. It’s awesome every time. But the photos I took with the webcam where disappointing, also after some correlations of several pics. So I think I need to tune the webcam somehow. Maybe it helps if I reduce the distance of the CCD to the objective a little bit. That would require a new housing but it’s worth giving it a try…

NEW TOYS FOR BIG BOYS III

All that I can say after having the Tamiya under trial for some time is: It’s a nice toy!

NEW TOYS FOR BIG BOYS II

I tried the Tamiya RC car today. Actually it’s very nice. It has a good acceleration, speed and the steering is perfect. It works very sensibly. So I had a lot of fun with it as you can see in my film.

NEW TOYS FOR BIG BOYS

Every holiday needs its project. That’s why I decided to get myself a Tamiya Super Fighter G RC car. It comes in a kit and is actually one of the smaller cars with an electric motor but has sufficient power.

Specifications:
Dimension: 384 x 248 x 145 mm
Drive: 2WD
Max. Speed: 30 km/h
Scale: 1:10
Wheelbase: 260 mm
Track Width Front: 216 mm
Track Width Rear: 208 mm
Chassis: DT-02
Weight: 1160 g

PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE

I watched it – the partial lunar eclipse we had this August. It nearly reached 80% coverage on August 16th at 11:11pm MESZ in Germany. One thing is for sure: it wasn’t that spectacular in terms of the shots I made than at my RECENT TRY where we had half-moon. Furthermore we had a bad seeing yesterday with high air humidity.