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Observing Session 002

13/04/2010 Time Started: 2145 UT Time Finished: 2230 UT Weather: clear and cold, hardly a breeze. Dark Sky Scale: 5, suburban sky. Transparency: 5, good. Seeing: 6, very good, hardly a shimmer. Celestron 15x70 binoculars used. Travelled a short distance from home to a place on the coast which although suffers from similar levels of lp to home has the sea and darkness as a backdrop. Taking advantage of the continuing clear evenings to observe and find my way around the night sky. Tonight i am con
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Llama in Space

I decided to get back into astronomy after watching "Wonders of the Solar System" with Prof Brian Cox on BBC2. Last time i looked through a telescope in anger i was 14! My first 'real' telescope was a shiny red tasco 60mm from my mum's catalogue. I remember being transfixed by the moon (to be honest it was probably all i could see with that scope) There wasn't any such thing as the internet then and all I learnt about astronomy came from books in the school library read avidly during lunchbreak.
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