Author Archives: Michael Foegelle

Time to Start Praying!

I’m not normally outspoken about my faith, especially online, but when people ask, I’ll tell them that I can’t look at the wonders and majesty of this universe and the elegance of the physics that we’ve discovered and believe that … Continue reading

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The Weather Channel is Just Messing With Us!

Well, over the weekend, weather.com started showing the long term forecast for April 8th, and unfortunately it’s not looking good.  That said, given that they haven’t been able to accurately predict our weather here eight hours ahead of time, I’m … Continue reading

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50/50 for April 8th, 2024

Historic predictions from the National Weather Service, as well as my own recollection and records of April weather give us a 50/50 chance of having clear skies here in Central Texas and the rest of the state.  As we’re sitting … Continue reading

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Planning for April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse

Never look at the sun without eye protection! The next great total solar eclipse is now less than a year away, with a path from Mexico, up through Texas and much of the Eastern United States, leaving through northern New … Continue reading

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Updating my All Sky Camera

My all sky camera had been out of operation for a year or more due to a flakey USB interface.  I’m not sure how much of that was related to my observatory PC as other USB devices give me problems … Continue reading

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ORO Back Online!

Well, after about two years of being shut down and occupied with the construction of our new house, I’ve finally started taking some time to get back into astrophotography.  On Black Friday we started looking at solar scopes and H-Alpha … Continue reading

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Arduino GPS Replacement for NexStar GPS

Ok, after lots of research and experimentation, I’ve completed my Arduino Nano based GPS for replacing the NexStar GPS modules.  I’m going to give a detailed walk through of everything here so that it’s well documented, although it may take … Continue reading

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Upgrade Complete!

We’re now running on the latest versions of Gallery 3, PHP, and WordPress, and everything seems to be working fine. There are some glitches in a couple of Gallery modules, but none that appear to affect the user experience. I’ll … Continue reading

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Upgrading Photo Gallery

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I’m going to bite the bullet and upgrade my Gallery 3 based photo gallery V3.09 to the new “Gallery Revival” V3.10. In 2015, the development on the Gallery 3 project (galleryproject.org) ended … Continue reading

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Visit my YouTube channel!

I finally gave in and started my own YouTube channel for various videos I’ve been putting together. While I’ve typically done photographic records that I could come back and document with text, I found I wasn’t doing that very often, … Continue reading

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