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  1. Perfect, OKay will go as sun setting. Won't be able to see it later I don't think as the more west it goes, the more Portsmouth will get in the way 😄 Will it be the same the day after boxing day? THanks, Sarah
  2. Thanks - I'm assuming by SW you mean south west. THe only dark part of the beach is over on the east so I wonder if will be able to see it if only low down over the tall stuff in between because of the way it curves round. Will definitely try though and should be able to just do it if it's not too westerly. THanks again 🙂
  3. Okay perfect - so we can see still some things if we head off to the beach on Boxing day. So I'll look for Jupiter perhaps and work out when you are able I can imagine the overwhelming aspect, even the campsite isn't quite so amazing as in the middle of the moors in the middle of the night or some of the places near my dad's house- the sky is literally littered with stars without a space in between!! THanks 🙂 So all I need now is a city wide blackout 😄
  4. THanks again, will download this app but does this app take into account light pollution when looking up what you can see from your location or is it purely where objects are in respect to your location? Thanks again, Sarah
  5. Hey guys Just a quick question in case she wants to check it out quite quickly and we get the opportunity. I've looked at a couple of sites - a light pollution one and dark sky discovery site. It appears the local camping site I mentioned is smack bang on one of the few listed places on the dark sky discovery site for seeing the milky way etc with eyes which is great - I knew this would be a great place as the stars are spectacular there and often see orion, shooting stars and what not - never knew what milky way looked like to know. My Dad's house I mentioned on the cornish coast and my aunt's house in the moors also show up as great places without light pollution on the light pollution site so that's great too. Also my friend who lives on a private estate right on the top part of southdowns without street lights and all whom have ridiculously sized gardens between the houses you could almost go for a walk around also appears to come right bang on another location shown on dark sky discovery which you can see milky way and orion with normal eyes. So at least there's a few places we go to from time to time where it will be easy to get out and use. However, is there another site or a more detailed site which might find a few more details of where other lessor opportunities are that aren't so great so we can pop there even just to see the moon and other closer objects? As mentioned there's too much light pollution around my house showing up as dark red on the light pollution map and barely ever see the one brightest star but there is a possibility of going to the far end of the beach near me, especially when the tide is low where we can get away from the light a bit - or on top of portsdown hill overlooking portsmouth perhaps but the light pollution site still says it's pretty bad in these specific areas and only one level lower than the red in most of portsmouth so not sure if still possible at all as don't know how it works or impacts views in that much detail? There's a couple of places on the beach we go for fireworks etc that is pretty dark - you can't really see each other much unless the moon is out and bright? How would this compare and what could I possibly see from here - is it worth trying as obviously I have no clue how much these things effect it. I'm assuming if you could see the moon, that's possibly always possible but how much better than your own eyes? I just thought best to avoid the first trip being a complete waste of time or disappointment if can see nothing much more than the eyes so though I'd better check with you guys 🙂 Many thanks, Sarah p.s Arggh - possibly not so much a quick question 😄
  6. Thank you. Yes, her name is Theia and wanted a name that meant something to do with nature or earth etc and didn't want to call her gaia or anything like that but then saw her daughter and always loved the moon myself lol 🙂 It's pronounced without the H though and I ummed and argghed for weeks over whether to spell it the original way or change it to what it sounds like (tayah/Tayuh) but didn't like it so went with the original. The registrar gave me false hope as took one look at the form and said it perfectly - not one time since though!! It's turned up already by some form of flukey miracle as ordered it Friday night and shop said it couldn't possibly be until Tuesday as delivery peeps wouldn't pick up until Monday. but I delivered it to my mum's house as from Santa so couldn't afford to be delivered here as it's the largest present she's got and would have known immediately it's not from Santa on the day!! My mum's taken it out the box and sent me some photos but wouldn't really know if anything broken or not I suppose. I'll see if possible for me to check before Christmas but not sure if will actually get the opportunity. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂
  7. I know nowt about telescopes but I can help with the cold as no thyroid and always cold! Pure wool that's untreated will work far better than any man made material for heat regulation in regards to socks. I have a duvet that's pure untreated wool and it's about half an inch thick and that's all I need all year compared to the mountains of blankets I used to have to use. Keeps me toasty in the winter and cool in the summer. Best thing I ever bought!!! I think merino wool is less scratchy but you could put them on over normal thin socks. THe difficulty will be to find pure wool and untreated ones - the way the wool is processed and chemically treated takes away the properties of wool - you'd be amazed at the warmth untreated wool can bring. Will stink a little of sheep at first goes away after a little while. Having said that the reason I needed to invest in pure wool topper and duvet was because of my new at the time mattress with a memory foam top which was sweltering (go figure) - perhaps you could just try memory foam insoles on that basis 😄 You can also get fluffy wool insoles and boot liners too 🙂 Ps. Perhaps put some thermals under your trousers too to keep the blood warmer up to your feet too?
  8. Sorry technical issues and can't find a delete button lol! Thanks Geoff Okay, that's useful to know. My camping table is rectangular so wouldn't be able to get round it all. I was thinking I could use the freezer box as solid and unmoving but I think it's a little on the thin size in depth and assuming you need to have all three of those little semi circles around the edges on properly as there appears to be feet under these. Ideally I need something collapsible so will keep an eye out for something like this over the next month or so but won't look online as no way of telling how stable it is. II imagine something wooden would be best as many of the metal ones have all become a bit cheap and rickety in the last decade. Otherwise I suppose can pick up something like your green thing which when upside down, won't take up that much space. And my mum's partner is really good in carpentry so he can perhaps make me something. I'm quite happy on the floor too for shorter opportunities or can use a already existing bench like at the campsite and so on. Thanks 🙂 I'm assuming it doesn't have to be perfectly level?
  9. I definitely will do x I imagine by boxing day knowing my daughter 😄
  10. And although everyone on here has been extremely helpful for different reasons - so many thanks to you as you really helped getting me out of a head swamp with this message and reset as suggested 🙂
  11. Oh and I meant to say beautiful pics. If my priority was the planets and moon, you would have perhaps swayed me x
  12. It's ordered........ 🥳🥳🥳🥳 THanks to you all again. I'm sure you'll see me on here before long. Now, for the rest of my Xmas shopping............. 😉
  13. THanks - useful to know for later. Ah so just on the closer stuff.
  14. Thank you Yes I suppose with my eye sight, the less blurry the better thinking about it! And yes, it's the other stuff out there that seems more fascinating although do want a good look at the moon plus my daughter loves the moon and her name is the hypothesized ancient planet that theoretically crashed into earth to make the moon -but there's only so much for you to see there 😄 My daughter is also particularly obsessed with the more unknown space and galaxies and nebulas etc rather than the planets. I'll stick with the 130 for now as don't know whether we'll even get into the hobby too much plus I already took an ereader off her list to increase my budget although my dad has decided to get her this now instead so I suppose all works out well!
  15. THank you, Well that's another smack head moment - I know prisms and refraction and basic light stuff. For some reason just didn't put that together with the word "refractor" used in the "refractor" telescope!! SO that's why you get the chromatic abberation thingy from and will assume this will make you loose definition of detail and edges etc in some cases. Although don't mind a bit of purple myself 😉
  16. The answer to that was pretty blinking obvious when you stop to think about it huh 🤣 I'm just not stopping lol!! Now I feel really dumb - honestly not my normal self - slap head - ahem! I just spoke to Rother valley optics to check was in stock as they said to do this and thought I'd better check this before they close and I order and they said deffo the heritage 130 of those two as well so I suppose that's the one 🤗 My gosh, I'm so relived as this has been a major headache this week that I was just going round in circles with so phew!! THanks to you all. Unless I should consider the heritage 150 🤣🤣🤣 Ignore that last bit...........
  17. I'm still a little undecided to be honest but feeling definitely one of the two and can order tonight so a bit relieved compared to yesterday so thanks to you all. I can see in the video it will sit on the seat 🙂 THe heritage seems small enough - is the ST80 smaller when packed up? It's just the shops were saying the ST80 would be better on planets and things but it could have been that I had already mentioned not wanting to collimate so would have steered me in that direction anyway. Can anyone tell me what precisely would be the kind of difference we're looking at between the two in viewing both the moon and planets and then the more deeper space objects. I'm assuming that the heritage dobs can see a little further afield/deeper than the ST80 but what about clarity of images etc? I could just go by which would be easier to wrap - which would be the dobs 😄 I'm assuming both can be upgraded to some extent but yes that can be left to later - much later lol!!!
  18. Thank you that's really great and the collimation sounds easy. I always actually prefer manual to computerised anyway so not an issue. Do you need to be out early to see planets? I figured the later the better 😄 I'm good with the floor too!
  19. Yeah it does look rather neat and smooth lol! Does it come in a strong box you can keep it in? Thanks 🐵
  20. Thanks, will watch this a bit later as useful to see it next to a person when have a few more spare mins as I'm supposed to working 😄 Also apologies if don't make any sense as typing very fast in between doing the accounts and trying to get as much of month end done as possible and making payments! THanks
  21. Oh I wrote another word earlier and it changed it to short bottom which makes no sense but that wasn't intentional 😄 Will assume the site changed it on purpose as you guys like to keep it free of bad language and friendly lol!
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