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Blog 17248

20th September 2009

I have work tomorrow so this is gonna be a shot obs session. Beautiful suny day, in fact one of the best all year I think.I went out on the bike to recce a couple of potential dark sites but forgot to put the scope out till 2030 !...Doh! went out at 2100 to patchy, fluffy banks of orange clouds skitting accros the sky.Typical...clear all day and then starts to cloud over as the scope comes out !. Well, the darkest and most cloud free area appears to be vega....so thats where I start. Vega looks
Craig H

Craig H

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Blog 17248

Friday 18th Septmember. observing report

I decide to go to my folks house friday night as this is where my 10" flextube lives. It's a lot darker than my house and it's a good excuse ( not that we need one! )to have a few beers with the old man. After collimating the primary which is a little way out from the factory ( I decide not to mess with the secondary on this occasion and just see how my primary tweeks have gone), and leaving the scope to cool down for probably not long enough,... I can wait no longer. Newly acquired Baader Hyper
Craig H

Craig H

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Blog 16609

The next two years of my life.........

.............will be doing (here we go) : AS & A2 Italian (A-Level Italian [got an A* in my GCSE]) French GCSE R.E. GCSE English & English Literature GCSE Maths GCSE History GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics GCSEs I.C.T. GCSE P.E. (not GCSE) And thats it!! I'm in Year 10 now (11 years of school...I need a break :p!!). For those of you who are wondering, I only did Italian because my mum is Italian, so I'm bilingual. (Although I speak French, English, Italian, German, words of Spanish a
DAVPPK

DAVPPK

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Blog 14509

Night out chinese latern gazing !

Saturday 12th september 2009 Night under chinese lanterns Tonight me and the family went out to look around the sky and at jupiter and all of a sudden spotted 9 orange circular objects that light the whole sky up. At first we thought it was a meteor shower but then learned fom this website that they were indeed Chinese wish lanterns. A good night was had by all
Dazraz

Dazraz

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Blog 17154

old(ish) newbie...

Greetings to all, Having almost reached retirement from the daily drudge and grind, I find myself with some time and a little extra 'lucre'...I have in mind a Skywatcher 300-P c/w NEQ6 mount. I also intend getting some decent EP's... 5mm-6mm...15mm...25mm...(Meade 5000) and a decent 2x Barlow...will throw in a diagonal as well...Now then, my question is this...how will that litle lot perform? I reckon I should have some fun playing with it for a while first... Smashing site you have here guys,
blimpoid

blimpoid

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Blog 17149

Butch

I just received my NexStar 8se Scope and am new to using telescopes. I aligned using the 3 star system but now how do I make my scope follow the object I`m looking at? I have the GPS accessory unit. Is this what does it and if so how do get it to work?
dragwhine

dragwhine

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Blog 17104

Reporting Aboard...

Hello All, I'm a Merchant Mariner and amateur observer from the 'States'; I've been sailing for about thirty years and stargazing for nearly forty, and the night sky as seen from the deck of a ship at sea is my favorite reason for being out there on the waters. These days I work a 750-foot-long cargo ship named 'Arctic' based in New Jersey, which cruises the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and generally throughout the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. We carry general stores for the USN and USMC, includi
Redrefractor

Redrefractor

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Blog 16902

Messier 22

Hi and Hello We are new to the site and have just posted our first picture M22 taken at Les Granges using a Meade 127 Apo and using a Canon 350D manual focus. The picture was processsd in Deep Sky Stacker and then in Photshop CS4. Its a stack of 8x4min exposures with dark frames subtracted. Tution on the photoshop our first time was thanks Olly. We would welcome your comments and any thoughts why we are loosing colour which was there in the original frames.
christinerobertadamson

christinerobertadamson

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Blog 16963

NEW MEMBER SAYING HELLO

HI, I AM A NEW MEMBER I LIVE AT CAPE CANAVERAL FL. HAVE A STELLAR VUE AND CGEM 8 SCT.LOOKING FORWARD TO TALKING TO THE MEMBERS, HAVE A PARROT THAT LOOKS AT THE MOON THROUGH MY TELESCOPE ,ENJOY SURFING AND SKIN DIVING.HAVE A GREAT DAY AND CLEAR SKIES, RANDY.:happy10:
randylong

randylong

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Onwards to Mars, onwards to Mars!

So, it's been a while....

I'm not a great fan of summer observing, principally because it stays light for soooooo long! By the time it gets dark, I'm generally too knackered to think about anything but bed. Anywho, the passed couple of nights, I have noticed it getting darker a bit earlier and thoughts have been straying back to observing. Remarkable who the sky changes in just a couple of months (well, of course it would, simpleton! I hear you cry and quite correct too). Sadly, I have been troubled by thin whispy clou
TheThing

TheThing

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Blog 16974

kronos 20x60 binoculars for sale

I live in Great Britain (Herefordshire) and I have some 20x60 kronos binoculars that I want to sell. They are in very good condition, like new and I would like £100 for them. I have never been on one of these blog sites before, so I am not sure if your message will just go onto this site or go to my email address. If you want to email me my address is green-feet@live.com
julie.howes

julie.howes

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Blog 12654

My EP Collection with Info.. post yours?

Thought I'd clean the kit bag out today.. so while all was out on the table thought it would be a good time to take a photo of my EP collection Moonfish 30mm UWA 2" EP - Space walk views, does pull stars on outer 30% in my f6, less in the f7 Sterling 25mm 55 degree - Nice contrast DSO EP (TV Plossl perfomance) Skywatcher 27mm 53 degree - Great contrast, and inky black background. Does pull stars on outer 20% SmartAstronomy 18mm & 12.5mm 53 degree LER. Nice on the eye, great colour correction
Rob

Rob

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Blog 14473

The Art of Stepper motors in an uncaring society...discuss

Now, in the general scheme of things i like to think i can regularly out shine a low watt bulb. I know my brother would provide evidence to the contrary but, as i keep telling my son, uncle Ian smells. So, having done a degree which had electronics in it somewhere I decided to bravely copy someone elses good work and make a parraalllllel (never could spell that) port controlled focuser. I ordered all the bits and waited..and waited, then phoned up the delivery company got them to deliver it to a
ncjunk

ncjunk

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Blog 16752

Shuttle Launch Visible tonight!

Just seen ISS pass from Bexhill at 21:28 (GMT). About 5 degrees ahead of it and clearly in the same orbit was a dimmer object about -1 mag. I was about to post here to ask what it was. It was travelling ahead of the ISS though. For brief few seconds I managed to keep the ISS in the scope field of view, long enough to make out some structure although indistinct. Simon
SimonAllen

SimonAllen

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Blog 16843

New guy needs your help please

Hi, I am a newcomer to the forum and astronomy, apart from having an interest in it as a child. (life must have taken over). I have purchased some equipment and have experienced some difficulty in setting up and alligning my eqatorial mount, and also have no idea of where to look in the night sky. I have heard that star parties are a good thing to attend because they allow you to meet other amateur astronomers and pick up tips. Does anyone know of any that are scheduled?, or are there any knowle
totalamateur

totalamateur

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Blog 16799

Description #1 of Ron Price's Blog

My literary activity on the world-wide-web is a personal and quite industrious enterprize. When I can find the time, I am engaged in creating across this global internet a tapestry or a jig-saw puzzle of poetry and prose. At this site, readers will find one of my many journals, diaries or blogs. These various terms are used by various internet sites for a series of posts by one writer/author. The series of posts at this site is one of the many parts of this tapestry of prose and poetry I refe
RonPrice

RonPrice

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Blog 16559

last night

2am is late for stargazing i know but when i saw the sky was clear i had to have a look and wow its all changed again! pegasus has risen in the east and seems to be dominating the sky there. havent seen it since about january it feels like wow. found it very difficult to make out saggitarius in the deep south sky stars not very bright at all. it was worth venturing out on to the slug covered lawn to seen jupiter for my first time this summer. so bright he shone :D Sky was dark enough also to mak
nightone

nightone

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Blog 16402

wiliam optics bino viewer in Vixen 102m

I just bought a new WO BinoViewer which includes two 20mm eyepieces and a 1.6 mini barlow. However, I dont have enough in focus to acheive focus when using my diagonal. O/K without tho` The other problem I found was that the eyepiece focuser on the left eyepiece comes to focus at a different position than that of the right eyepiece.The left eyepiece has to be turned down to the very bottom of its travel. Do you think that there is a collimation problem? I know that my eyes are pretty close to on
inspectapart

inspectapart

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Blog 14473

New kid, new roof and new found inability to sleep :-D

Well little Xacobe was born on the 7th of May and kept us busy ever since. Sleepless nights used to be spent swearing at the fact I couldn´t find M81 again and the focus was slightly out. Now it appears to be whether the nappy is dirty, he is hungry or little johnny has broken his leg down the old abandoned well (I figure communicating to a child is much like the old black and white lassie episodes...I am pretty sure a lot of the communicating is telling me about some poor child has had an accid
ncjunk

ncjunk

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Blog 16559

WOW for tonight

Just come back in from almost an hour viewing the night sky :D Went out at 11.40 and back in at 12.35 Isnt it amazing how when you are enthralled with the sky the coldness disappears and the fact that you are standing on a lawn full of dew with slippers on means nothing. I dont know if there was a concert going on nearby but all i could hear the whole time was different kinds of music and also fireworks (didnt see any though but they certainly scared my cat who was also out with me). To be fair
nightone

nightone

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Blog 16559

upcoming clear night

tonight is the first clear night since i last posted and i am hoping to have my first EVER proper sighting of antares. im feeling very excited about this. vega and arcturus already visible in the darkening sky....
nightone

nightone

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