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Could fall to the dark side.

Well the weathers been bad all I seem to see is cloud over the last week. The one good night Friday I had to go out so missed a great night viewing. Well My scope has a home finally in the corner of the bedroom. I can open the window there and get a good view of the east through to the south part of the night sky, Just incase for a moment of cloud free sky. Read a post yesterday of someone taking a photo of the moon with there mobile and thought I could have ago at that so I took afew last night
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17.11.09

Wonderful early evening sky meant that I could get out proper for the first time since getting my scope. My thoughts were in expectation of the Leonids Meteor shower expected to peak tonight. My first Target was of course Jupiter who was showing even before sun set I spent a good couple of hours on this and was showing my sister and brother inlaw the site. I watched the eclipse of one of her moons and saw the best detail I have seen on jupiter could see the main banding quite clearly. I then Jus
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15/11/09

Well we had a loverly clear day in london today so was hopingfor a nice clear night some chance. I set up the scope about 3:30 while it was still clear and the sun just going down. Just saw Jupiter about 4:00 pm so thought have a quick look before tea. The quick look lasted about 2 hours and done my first sketch of what I could see through the scope. After Tea the clouds had roled in so was unable to see anything else. [ATTACH]5[/ATTACH]
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14.11.09

Well been clouded out all week so not alot been happening. Did get out for a little while tonight until the clouds rolled in. Mainly viewed in and around Orion. Had a look at M42 and M43 and M42. Not sure if its my eyes but could not see a great deal of difference in the views from the MA EP's that came with my scope and the Mead 5000 I bought. It may well be that I am not using the scope as well as I could be. There dont seem to be a site anywhere that shows you what you should be seeing with a
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13.11.09

Well clouded out most of this week. Good news is the 2 meade 5000 EP came today but unable to check them out cause of the cloud. Not sure if there make much difference with my Meade DS2090 scope. Really begining to understand the paitence bit now as have been dying to get out there but cloud just so thick. Heres hoping for a clear night over the weekend.
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12.11.09

Had some stuff to do today so got up at 5am had a quick look at Saturn. Even though I have only just started in this Hobby I must admit feeling a little disapointed with the views from this scope. Hoping they will improve when I get my new EP's and Barlow everthing is so small its hard to see the detail with these aging eyes. I have started saving already for a bigger and hopefully better scope. Just wished Santa really existed lol.
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5.11.09 - 11.11.09

Well was clouded out most of the weekend and nothing looks like changing in the near future. Patience I guess what a virtue. I did manage a quick couple of hours on Sunday watching Jupiter and its moons which was cool but a little disapointing as the image was quite small to get any detail of the bands. That said its still amazing. So with the cloud down I have been hitting the wallet Ive bought a 26mm and 9mm super plossal EP and a 2x Barlow. The rest of my spare time has been looking at what I
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5.10.09

Well its fire works night tonight and the cloud cover is thick, so had to put on hold the setting up of the goto on the scope. Time to browse the night sky on my comp with my Starry Night Pro. The age of modern tec I can sit indoors and learn the night sky. I can reconise most of the main constellations know in my part of the world. Also dreaming of what would my Ultimate set up be? When I started out in marine tanks this change week in week out and so I think will be the same with this hobby. I
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4.11.09

Well My DS 2090 AT goto Came today. Talk about like a kid at christmas haven't been this excited since I don't know when. Well the big kid that I am did'nt take long to it was unpacked. First reaction was it all felt pretty light. Unpacked all the boxes and laid every thing out. Not much too it all was my thought. First up I set up the tripod straight forward then attached the mount This was just like attaching a camera. all very straight forward did not have to look at the instuction manual. H
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New Beginings

Just joined SGL and thought why not start a blog from a complete novice’s perspective. Hi I'm Martin and have always had a liking for the night sky. Have found it relaxing just looking up and pondering what it is all about, life the universe. Well last week my Daughter Erin came home from school and told me she is learning about space and the universe. She seemed to be so excited about the whole idea. So I pulled out my laptop and started searching for pages and pictures of the solar system and
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