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    Chairs Blog October 2024

    Hello all. October is upon us already. After my last trip out in September, with 2 heavily laden SD cards I set about to download them, so plugging in the first card my computer checks for bugs first with that all OK, I click on the folder and instruct it to transfer to a designated folder, and one last click of the mouse to say go, and shock horror I get the message ‘not enough space for the files’…..WHAT the !!!! I have a 4TB hard drive there must be a mistake, try again I’m thinking….click the mouse and hey presto….same flipping message. OK let’s look at the properties for…

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    Chairs Blog September 2024

    Hi all, welcome to the Chairs Blog, I hope you enjoy this read and possibly gives you some encouragement to have a go at something out of the norm. So August brought some clear skies at last, keeping an eye on the moon phases and how clear the sky was, resulted in myself popping to Reculver one evening, well it was actually at midnight, to have a try at getting the Milky Way. So armed with my tripod and a wide angle lens (14mm), I set up with my camera pointing in what I hoped was the correct direction (I used an app on my phone called Ephemeris) and including…