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©GC Wood 2002
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Here you will find a miscellany of things from Astronomy Projects to Woodwork Projects, Film & Digital Camera photographs to a Web Graphics Tutorial. I hope you enjoy your visit and find the information useful. |
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The
Astronomy
section has several projects available for those with
some D-I-Y skills. There is a construction article for a
Parallelogram Binocular Mount
which takes the strain off extended periods of viewing.
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There is a design for a
Reflex or
Unity Power Sight
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Coming
later there will be an article on an Equatorial Platform
for Dobsonian telesopes.
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The
Photography
section reflects my interests
in the unusual and often unseen effects of
natural phenomena
like the Sun halo here as well as pretty things like
flora and fauna.
The daffodil shown is one of many flower photos.
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Cats and spiders feature as well as bees and flies.
This section hosts the astronomy photos -
the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn
may be seen here.
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I have always looked to my own resources before going out and spending 'loadsa money' for things that I am able to make for myself. Perhaps it is the engineer in me saying that I will get a better product if I design or make it myself. 
Woodworking Projects
shows some
of my work.
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There are increasing numbers of digital cameras and scanners 
in the home computer users' peripheral arsenal these
days. While they can produce
very acceptable results, the digital camera is still very
much in the 'automatic' class of cameras and may
produce results that need the white level adjusting to
fit the dynamic
range or the midtones lifting to reveal the detail in the
shadows.
To this end, I have put together a
Web Graphics Tutorial
to show how a poor image may be improved and its
filesize reduced to provide a quick loading web image.
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Here are 
some notes on my recent XP1800+ computer build.
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