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Finally, the weather is great, damn it...

So there is was last night, gazing up at an amazingly clea sky for the first time since I bought my scope. The stars were barely even twinkling. I've never seen anything like it for years. Unfortunately, my scope was 180 miles away. Oh well.
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The step arrived, and some eyepiece malarky

The steps really cool. When I can be bothered doing some computering, I might try to figure out how to post a picture. I think i decided on my first upgrade eyepiece. Everyone says the 10m that comes with Skywatcher scopes is only so-so, and I really wanted something a bit shorter as well. I'd like some of my favourite globs to fill the eyepiece when the viewing allows. So it looks like its going to be a 13mm Ethos and a 2x Powermate. I need to sell a few things to fund these (I promised the wif
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Eyepiece access for the missus

One thing that was very apparent when Pat and I visited OpticStar was that she wasn't going to be able t reach the eyepiece anywhere from above about 10 degrees from zenith. Maybe a little more. As she's showing a lot of interest in the scope, I want to make sure she gets as muc out of it as I do, and so I've order a caravan step from Amazon. The one I ordered is "Milenco Aluminium Single Step Rubber Top". The reason for my choice is that it's a single step with a pretty broad platform. It's 8
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Introduction

Hello, my name is Phil. I'm 45 years old, and work in IT management for a large financial institution. I spent many years programming in various languages, including Java, C++, Ruby, Smalltalk etc. When I was about 25 (?) I bought a small Tal-1 reflector, as I'd been interested in astronomy as long as I remember. It cost well over £100, which 20 years ago was a not insignificant amount. I looked through the scope a handful of times, seeing the crescent of Venus, M42, Saturn (though could never m
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