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stephen bidwell – the gambian william herschel

waxing gibbous from the gambia

waxing gibbous from the gambia

These shots were taken in The Gambia with Stephen Bidwell. He is the resident astronomer at the Hotel Kairaba – a beautiful 5 star hotel on the west coast of Africa (so it beats a garden in ealing!). You can see him and […]

capeMirror ASCOM driver

Introduction In this post I’ve included the most significant files from the capeMirror ASCOM driver. The full set can be downloaded here. The image on the right shows them within Visual Basic 2008 Express. The easiest way to approach them is like this: 1. Set-up the global variables. 2. View the main driver. Module CM_Globals […]

formatting code for blog

formatting code for blog

one of the issues that vexed me for a while was how to format code extracts in this blog. I wanted a system that could be used for a variety of different languages (c++, visual basic, css, php etc) and could be expanded […]