Water Cooling for CCD

SBIG advises Not to cool the water which is going through the camera to cool the CCD inside.. it can cause dew to form inside the camera body, which can fry the electronics! 

But here in summer the temp goes way to high.. so a few months back i had built a custom water cooling system where i can set the temperature with a micro controller. Now i keep the temperature of the water above the dew point and everything works fine!

Here is a comparison.. 31 Celsius goes in the camera and 35 Celsius comes out and drops in the water cooling box.

Changed position of the Weather Station

My weather station was fixed closed to the ground, some 2 feet above it. The observatory buildings are very near to that place and the wind speed gets effected by it. i knew i had to change the position of the weather station.

Today i changed the position of the station and fixed it on a 15 feet high poll! I will test the measurements in the coming days. 

Firmware updates!

Tonight i connected Losmandy Titan with the ethernet connection and this enabled me to update the firmware.

Both the Main Board and Hand Control got new firmwares which has many new and improved features.. i will be testing them out in the few next days to come.

I am always impressed to use Losmandy Titan Mount.. such a beautiful piece of machine!!