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My Hugo Publishing Process
After years on Pelican, this site now runs on Hugo. Writing a post is a Markdown file and a git push; GitHub Actions builds it and Cloudflare serves it, usually within a minute. Here’s how the whole pipeline fits together.
Hello Again
Six years after the last post, the site is back, rebuilt with Hugo.
Moving from Linux to Windows
I never thought that I would be starting an article containing the statement “moving from Linux to Windows”, but this is exactly what will be happening with my main imaging scope set up in a few days. For those who don’t know anything about me, I have spent decades… (hmm, yes it is now measurable…
Up and Running with GPSD on Raspberry Pi
Regarding computer hardware I have had to hand in the last two years or so, things have been in flux, you might say. I have not had ready access to a proper non-work Linux desktop environment where I could happily run Docker and Python. This has meant that keeping my Pelican blog up to date…
June 2020 Roundup
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So here begins the June 2020 roundup. This month is a bit of a random collection of the moon, satellite passes, star trails and an inner Solar system planetary conjunction!
Building a Raspberry Pi Flavoured DSLR Control Unit
As well as the telescope pier I like to have a DSLR (an astro-modified Canon EOS 450D) on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount around in the garden. It makes for a nice little mobile arrangement that can be set up at a moment’s notice. Usually the set up consists of the camera, a lens warmer,…