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  By Felias · Posted 2 minutes ago
  
  I had a few things waiting for me when I came back from my holidays. I had wanted one of these for a while: By a cosmic coincidence, it was on offer in Amazon the day of my birthday, "only" £375 brand new, so I couldn't resist! It arrived only a few hours before I did, and I haven't had much of a chance to test it. I took this photo (Canon 700D) during the full moon, but I messed up with the polar alignment, and I lost my flats! Less than 20 min, so I wasn't expecting anything great anyway, but at least the lens seems to work: These also arrived during the holidays (courtesy of FLO), and were waiting in my lab (they belong to the school). I expect to use them with the Dobsonian and the Lunt 40mm. I believe that a zoom lens will greatly improve the experience with the pupils, since swapping eyepieces isn't practical when you have many teenagers waiting, and they get frustrated that we have to find the target again.
- Long night of Astronomy (Lange Nacht der Astronomie) 2022
  
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  I think you'll find it's a C-54 Skymaster ... 😉 Not as bad a mistake as someone on another fourum I'm on who posted a photo today of a C-130 Hercules and said it was an Avro Lancaster ... 🤣
- Beginner looking to invest into a Tak setup (hear me out)..
  
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  Okay, good to know. Thanks!
- Would you clean this?
  
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  I've used Baader fluid with microfibre cloth on mine. It made no difference on my flaring issue though. 😉 When adjusting the camera orientation, I've sometimes brushed the surface of the corrector plate with a knuckle, leaving a smear requiring the baader fluid treatment. 🙂 Alan
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- Hawksmoor
  
  Wonderful clear and steady astro observing last night in Lowestoft. First time I've ever managed to see all the elements of the Veil Nebula from our backyard using handheld 8x30 binoculars. Took a few images of NGC7000 using modded and unmodded DSLRs . Will have some fun stacking them and combining them over the next few days.
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- Hawksmoor
  
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  George not in Lowestoft.
  
  August 3 · 3 replies
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  Met office lied to me! promised 0% cloud all night, I go outside and no sooner is everything set up, I get a nice wave of wall-to-wall thick cloud 😡
  I thought I was gonna be able to test my new ZWO EAF, apparently not.
  
  July 5 · 2 replies
- Hawksmoor
  
  This week, saw a Humming Bird Moth in our backyard! Have only ever seen these in Spain and the South of France before this year. Global warming has many surprises. Unfortunately it flew off before I could get a photo but Mrs. H also saw it so I'm not imagining things.
  
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