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Welcome to Pinnacle Hill Observatory
Latitude: 37˚10’48” S, Longitude: 175˚2’37” E Elevation: 250m
Pinnacle Hill Observatory is located in the Bombay Hills, at the southern border of Auckland, New Zealand.
The purpose of this site is to share my hobby via my blog posts and provide some information about the observatory in general.
The Observatory is a private facility and not open to the public, although I do welcome visitors by prior arrangement.
Andrew Kirk
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Recent blog articles
- Observatory Software
Now the workstation is built, it’s named (Kronos), and it’s physically installed into the observatory. It’s time to install the software. I’ve tried lots of different types of software over the years, and with the various drivers for Ascom etc, it can get kinda messy. Installing a system from scratch is an opportunity for a … - Kronos Workstation Install.
So this weekend, I installed the workstation in the observatory. If you recall from my last post, I wanted to change from 2 computers in the observatory to a single workstation that controls everything. Using 2 was just annoying with remote desktop etc. The previous post talked about the workstation build, which I’ve named Kronos … - New Observatory Workstation build
The observatory was using two computers, one for the control room, and another in the telescope area. I utilised Remote Desktop from the control room to control the telescope computer. A power surge killed the ‘better’ computer in the control room, so it was time for an upgrade. Meet Kronos. Named after the Klingon home-world. … - Log 15-11-2019
The target tonight is M20 – The Trifid Nebula. I’m using a piece of software called Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) which I purchased a couple of weeks ago. In an effort to try and learn how to use the program, I ordered the book ‘Using Sequence Generator Pro and Friends‘ by Alex McConahay, which has …
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