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A new dimension to my hobby

I'm updating my blog again, that must mean it's chucking it down outside. However, rather than go on about the weather, I wanted to share my first attempt at imaging from a couple of weeks ago. As you may have read else where on the forum, a large number of SPC880NC web cams have become available very cheaply and that they can be flashed with the SPC900NC firmware. This has meant quite a few people (myself included) have been able to try astro imaging for the first time. Before anything else, he
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Clouds, clouds and more clouds

It seems like months since I last saw a clear sky. Before I took up astronomy seriously, I never realised how repressive these clouds cloud be, now it feels like I'm living in some sort of cave. Still, it's given me plenty of opportunity to play Starcraft 2 late into the night! As I've mentioned a couple of times, I'd been hoping to be buy something new like a nice eyepiece by now. I really fancied a Baader Hyperion to add to my collection, but as I've hardly made use of what I've already got, I
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Just passing the time

It's just gone eight in the morning and it feels like it has been raining for weeks. The rather bedraggled pigeon sitting on the roof opposite doesn't look best pleased either. By now, I'd been hoping to write a little something about things I have seen through my telescope. Instead I've had to make do with trying out various different eyepieces in Stellarium to see if it helps me decide what to buy next. It hasn't really, but given that I've not been able to make full use of my current collecti
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First Purchase

So, having bought my telescope and set it up in the front room in order to learn how to use it, my thoughts turn to what I might buy next. A new eyepiece? Some filters? Maybe start saving for an equatorial mount? Once it starts to get a bit darker, I set up outside and give SkyAlign a go. Point at the Moon, point at bright star 1, point at bright star 2. Nothing. No match found. A couple more attempts using various combinations of stars but nothing matches apparently. Hmm, I must be doing someth
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An Introduction

Here, I'm hoping to keep some sort of record of my observations over time. My handwriting is not the best so rather than lose my notes in an incomprehensible scrawl, it made sense to attempt to log them on the computer. And where better to do that than here, where there is already an active community of astronomers who I can ask my silly questions? Up until quite recently, I'd been using a pair of 10x50 binoculars and simply sitting in a fold up chair in the garden. This allowed me to learn my w
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