Tenor Viol's musings

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We shall return

 

[Vetinari]

Looking at that pic. @Tenor Viol has been doing astronomy again. Photographing Stars.

 

[Royston]

Looking at that pic. @Tenor Viol has been doing astronomy again. Photographing Stars.

He hasn’t photographed me!!

 

[Vetinari]

He hasn’t photographed me!!

T,V. Only photographs the beautiful people.

 

[Royston]

T,V. Only photographs the beautiful people.

Must have had his wrong glasses on that day then.

 

[kevgermany]

That's why I don't think groups will resume until next year. It's also why I think some groups will fold as I think some people will choose not to return.

Sadly I think you're right

 

[Tenor Viol]

With regard to amateur choirs resuming, reading the advice from ABCD (Association of British Choral Directors) it really is a pig's ear. Outdoors is OK provided that social distacngn is maintained and the rules for the number of people permitted to meet outdoors is adhered to. OK that's sort of doable but a problem for larger groups. Indoor rehearsals can resume provided that social distancing is maintained and the current rules for meeting people indoors are adhered to. That is utterly useless, unless you're in a one voice to a part vocal consort.

 

[Vetinari]

Does that mean we could start again?
If it's only choirs then we could say we are a saxophone choral society.

 

[Wonko]

I expect that it will be another year before things will return to "normal". Over here in Belgium things have been a bit more relaxed for the last month or two. But then at the end of July we saw an surge of new Covid-cases (mostly in the big cities, started in Antwerp). The community band where I used to play (haven't played with them for the last 4 or 5 years due to other time consuming activities) had resumed practices. They played in the Church in order to have enough space and those that would attend had to "book their seat" in advance.
But now there has been an upsurge in new cases in our village and all group activities have been put on hold for at least a week or 2.

The music academy where I go to learn the saxophone should start again in September as normal. But I am not sure if the activities like the big-band where I played will be able to resume.
I am an optimist though, yesterday I went to get music glasses to be able to read the music score a little better.

 

[Vetinari]

The moon and mars. Samsung s5e tablet through bedroom window. Mars is the white dot on the right.

Picture cropped with photoshop express.

 

[Tenor Viol]

New toys due to arrive tomorrow....

 

[Royston]

New toys due to arrive tomorrow....

And what toys are they Ron?
Musical, photographic or astral?

 

[Tenor Viol]

And what toys are they Ron?
Musical, photographic or astral?

 

[Vetinari]

Is the mout motorised?

 

[Tenor Viol]

Is the mout motorised?

Yes with built-in computer, although I'll be add extra layers of computer control with a Raspberry Pi which will run the Raspberian Linux and Astroberry. That will be used to schedule runs, control the camera, and control the computerised guiding Astroberry Server

 

[Vetinari]

Sounds brilliant would love too see this in action but covid prevents. Hope you will post some pics.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Managed some pics with camera the other night, but not yet with the new telescope for various technical reasons (one involving felt pads - so not unique to saxes...).

In other news, my photography course started this week. Tuition is Mondays and Tuesdays in Liverpool, so it's 5.30am starts for me those days... I might not survive...

By Monday afternoon I was loading 35mm B&W film into a Paterson spiral and developing it... I think I last did that in about 1982...

 

[Tenor Viol]

The telescope has finally had its first outing and 'first light' and I stuck my camera on the end and this is the first thing I photographed: Andromeda Galaxy (M31). I'm posting a link as the file is large (15mb). Full-size the file is 60mb. The image isn't cropped at all - that's how big it is.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aSA_HSKllyIEcFoVflIs-m99z-TE-Igf/view?usp=sharing

 

[nigeld]

Very impressive.

 

[Adrian63]

Excellent Sir....amazing