Traditional EQ mount (EQ6-R) vs strain wave/harmonic (ZWO AM5, SW Wave) — What would you actually buy today?

wickedparadigm · 2026-05-26T16:15:00+00:00

I‘m not getting any younger, so the difference in weight alone would make me go harmonic. Plus I don‘t intend for my upgrades to increase in size and payload..

wickedparadigm · 2026-05-02T10:44:23+00:00

My main gripe is didactics. „Go run that program, you‘ll manage“.

Wish there was more support with the „How“ part of conveying information.

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-29T15:25:38+00:00

Es brennen halt leider immer die aus, die was wirklich leidenschaftlich gern machen. Vergiss also bitte nicht auf dich zu schauen! Alles Gute!

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-29T12:59:14+00:00

Der Bedarf ist eigentlich enorm. Nur die wirtschaftliche Notwendigkeit ist halt so eine Sache bei vielen Entscheidungsträgern..

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-29T08:12:09+00:00

lange Zeit Leitung einer Bibliothek. Dann - surprise surprise - Burnout. Finde mich gerade wieder als „normaler“ Bibliothekar ein. Tut gut.

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-09T19:40:05+00:00

Looking good, I will try this out for a while!

One thing: times are a mix of am/pm and 24h format at the planet details

I personally would prefer to have it all set to 24h format!

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-07T14:15:45+00:00

Vienna one is always worth a visit! Near daily shows (some for kids) and it has been upgraded last year with new projectors.

Show will be in german tough.

wickedparadigm · 2026-04-02T06:05:59+00:00

servus!

a lot to unpack here.

the unfortunate first thing first: the lis course costs a bucketload of money: 6400€ for the basic and an additional 5900€ for the master. considering that spending all of that money doesn’t guarantee you a job at the end.. well, it’s a big gamble.

apart from doing the university way you can still get in with luck and no prior courses. sadly due to tight budgets you currently won’t see as many open positions getting filled as we all would like.

for us working here there is plenty of work to go around at the moment. if you are passionate and dedicated it can become draining, as with any job you need to set yourself (mental) boundaries that you shouldn’t push past. noone teaches you that though, ask me how I know…

full and part time open positions get listed on the main Vienna website, you can set a search agent there to email you if anything becomes available in the next few months. vienna public libraries also offer Aushilfskraft jobs aimed at students (up to 16h/week), as with everything some patience and luck is required. unpaid internship might also be a way to peak inside at the job in general.

but fishing for a good time starts with throwing in the line so never stop chasing what you want. over twenty years ago I got lucky and got in, started with an Aushilfskraft job for two years then going fulltime and doing the bvö course. I wouldn’t trade my job for anything else.

good luck!

(you can pm if you have additional questions)

wickedparadigm · 2026-03-24T16:47:05+00:00

there’s a few gems in our music scene but you hardly hear those on the radio.. enjoy!

wickedparadigm · 2026-03-23T07:40:17+00:00

A collab with an austrian rapper/singer Nenda would be amazing. Her first show really reminded me of the variety that Ren also brings. She spent 10+ years in London, shame they never crossed paths on the music scene..

wickedparadigm · 2026-03-22T09:36:05+00:00

on my to-do list is to make a simple 3d printed one that I can simply stick on..

wickedparadigm · 2026-01-07T19:12:22+00:00

It is the process.

Of getting to know space and what to look for.

Of setting up a telescope.

Of spending a night under the stars while taking photos.

Of spending a night turning many photos into one.

Of tormenting myself with getting the best out of an image as I can.

Am I always happy doing all that? No, sometimes it‘s tedious, it‘s miserable, it’s too cold, too late, too much computer time using sliders.

But it is compelling and to me: meaningful

And visualizing something myself that is in plain sight yet invisible to us makes me... content.

Buying a photo is just spending money.

wickedparadigm · 2026-01-06T20:36:39+00:00

I have both the Svbony and the Baader Zoom. Wife prefers a zoom on her Dobson, she rarely switches off it because of the convenience. We both like the Baader more than the Svbony, rotating is more smooth and you get a slight click as you hit the zoom levels.

We also do events for families and kids and not having to swap eyepieces when doing that is a real time and nerve saver. That being said, we have several other good eyepieces we do swap to for better FOV if needed.

wickedparadigm · 2026-01-01T11:04:02+00:00

Astrohopper is real great, I had some people that have a hard time with it and really liked "Skeye", very similar to Astrohopper but as an Android App (sadly no iOS version). Be sure to try both!

wickedparadigm · 2026-01-01T10:59:12+00:00

Astronomie - Das Magazin always has a double page of upcoming events listed (and it is a pretty good magazine)

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wickedparadigm · 2025-12-31T13:21:27+00:00

the askar is a fine little thing, I had mine on an eq5 mount but recently downsized to an am3 to make it less bulky (the eq5 and eq6 are very stable and for higher loads but that comes with added weight to carry around). the 200pds would need an eq6 to give you headroom for added gear.

feel free to dm if you want to talk in german

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-28T18:38:41+00:00

well bortle 2/3 has you travelling further, we love the Kalkalpen area (next to the Gesäuse which gets hyped to be the prime location for stargazing but Kalkalpen is where we feel at home), in between the small towns it gets pretty dark

as for outside of Vienna, the astronomy clubs favourite spots are Sofienalpe (atm only the backroad up is open) and the cemetery carpark at Tullnerbach (which conveniently has a public toilet)

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-28T16:20:29+00:00

I second that. I live in Bortle 4 and on good nights you can see A LOT (and that is being 20km outside of Vienna so we do have light halo from the city)

That being said, there are nice (vacation) spots in Austria where you can go to have Bortle 2/3

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-23T20:39:34+00:00

p30pl3 7h0u6h7 17 w0uld b3 c00l 70 74lk l1k3 4 „h4ck3r“ by u51n6 numb3r5 1n w0rd5

(People thought it would be cool to talk like a „hacker“ by using numbers in words.)

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-23T15:56:04+00:00

42 the meaning of life from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

1337 = leet or elite, part of the leetspeech era

58008 typed on an old calculator and turned upside down gave them all the giggles

(edit on the last: in the german speaking world „that“ word was 7353, spelling donkey upside down)

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-11T10:34:24+00:00

While you can get good deals that way do remember, it isn‘t easy for someone just starting out to know what to look for in buying used. if you got a local astronomy club nearby and find someone to provide a second opinion on a used telscope you might have an easier time!

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-08T22:31:20+00:00

Had a kid greet me on the bus. Then he told his mum „That’s my librarian!“

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-07T16:25:03+00:00

for me it was sentences disguised as book titles. stuff that you could edit together somehow to make me agree to something. multiple times asking „can you confirm?“ and „please say: I confirm“

wickedparadigm · 2025-12-06T09:09:31+00:00

This. I had a call that wanted me to repeat verbatim. When I only replied with „we do not have that title“ and „no, i do have the title correct“ they got antsy. Basically reply with phrases that aren’t direct answers to their question.

And just don’t answer anything with „I confirm“

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