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Spikey

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  1. I'm finally joining the SGL. I've enjoyed reading this forum for many years, but today's the day I finally become a member. Yeah!

  2. Can't believe there's a full £1K price difference in buying the new mount I want in the UK compared to US. Would literally be cheaper getting a flight out to America and bringing it back with me!! Or order delivery from the states and get taxed on my wages, taxed on the item, taxed again on the item then to top it off postal taxed.

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      Add sales tax to that plus when you bring it back there will be VAT to pay and import duty. Oh and theres usually no European warranty so if it develops a fault guess where you'll be going to get it fixed !

      Post a question in the main boards about it - should get some good replies.

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  3. Well last night was very interesting. I got out to image the Moon and gave up soon as thin cloud / fog sucked up most of the brightness of the view. Was about to pack away when I thought I'd try a 7nm H-a filter. WOW! It certainly cut through the fog a bit. Will be interesting to see how the images come up. I slowed the frame rate down to just 5FPS at one point.

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      I've done that before Luke, pointed the CCD at the moon with a Ha filter on when I was waiting for an object to rise. Makes quite a nice, effective moon filter :)

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  4. Just discovered that my favourite game of all time (1997 Windows based game, Total Annihilation) is actually available for Mac, and is compatible with my laptop! I finally have something to do on cloudy nights :D.

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      That's the one !

      No, it wasn't as good as TA - used to have many a happy evening playing TA over a LAN.

      I was master of the stealth jet !

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  5. Just discovered that my favourite game of all time (1997 Windows based game, Total Annihilation) is actually available for Mac, and is compatible with my laptop! I finally have something to do on cloudy nights :D.

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      Didn't they bring it out under a different name once? Something commander?

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  6. Christmas is coming early, EQ8 arrival imminent!!! :D

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      That's where all this cloud has come from then :-)

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  7. Loving the Halloween header on the site :) Nice one Admins!

  8. All systems go for the Peak star party ! Just breaking the gear down and packing it up for the journey.

  9. All setup and working, first time in about 18 months. Just waiting for it to cloud over and it'll be like old times :)

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      It's all good practice mate. I'm surprised how smoothly mine went. Even did it under a red head torch - practicing not upsetting the visual people.

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  10. All setup and working, first time in about 18 months. Just waiting for it to cloud over and it'll be like old times :)

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      that has just literally happened to me ! Second or third time out imaging this year - mount check, polar align check, scopes balanced check, connect it all up and hope USB behaves check; it's looking good now ! unpark and platesolve, errr why is the screen white !!!! CLOUDED OVER !!!!

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  11. Enjoying a nice glass of chardonnay while the kids are swimming......I love centre parks!

  12. Have I been banned or something? All the comment/reply boxes of every page I visit are inactive. This seems to be the only way I can comment.

    1. Spikey

      Spikey

      Can you try anohter internet browser or another computer please ?

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