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hi rob, hopefully soon you can come to wales. that suit looks brilliant

hi stardaze, its a 12 volt alarm battery of amazon and a controller for the dew heater

my house will be for sale next year, short trip to bortle 2 skys for you then

you can always come over niall

i ha the same issue with my wifes 10" had to get longer screws. very strange

was well pleased with the sky darkness, it was my early b day present what clothing do people recommend ?

thats a shame paul. hope your ok mate was a amazing night, still got the image of m51 and m101 in my head. beautiful

hi iain, she has my pearl drummer stool. she had a job to move wearing all that gear , need to get some better clothing

It really is. Look at my report shows how dark it is 👍

it does collapse quiet well luckily 😁

Nothing special here but a brilliant night with my Mrs Forecast was excellent, so we headed to our dark sky site Journey time around 1.30 hr Temperature on arrival was 5 degrees this is around 19.00. Full set up of both dobs and colimate then sit back and have a brew. Temperature is now dropping so time to put the freezer clothing on Orion was now visible which was around 20.30. Sun wasn't set but m42 looked great waiting now for darkness. The object of the night was to show my wife around the nightsky, first time here with her dob. Popped in the apm 20mm and 100* and that stayed in all night. I was finding objects then using green laser pen so Heather could find them. It was brilliant. She found m42,m31, m81/82 m13, m3m5, the whale galaxy and a few others. Then she had a headache which effected her eyes. So in the van she goes. My turn oh my.m42 with the 13e was amazing, off to the flame now but then I noticed m43 never seen this before wow. The flame was amazing too Next up m81/82 in with the 8e 300x and oh my god what a amazing site. Next m51 so transparent the bridge was clear looked ace, Next m101 hints of arms but not the best strange considering how close it was to 51. Time for a brew, my new sky meter in my pocket took a reading 21. 40 wow Come after midnight and it was even darker, by now it was -3 and back to m51. Oh my god showed Heather and she said wow looks like 2 Catherine wheels, then m101 same again the arms make it look like a starfish. Then back to some clusters, 5mm pentax 480x wow. Could easily see the prop in 13 M5,m3, m92 wow on to the Eskimo, cateye, amazing at these powers. Now in goes the 21e and Leo. Cant believe there is so many galaxy's there, every movement and there was a eyepiece full of galaxy's with small dust lanes visible. At 1 stage I counted 9 all in the same fov. Awesome night.i will add to it later

This was Saturday night around 20.00 with my wife at snowdonia Big dob little dob 🤣

just come back from a awsome night myself, with my wife. report tomorrow and pics

heather, are you sure thats a bloke, looks like a bird 😁

that looks like your secondary offset, is it around f4 ?

i have the nexus on my 20" dob. had serges systems now for around 5 years. helped him out with a few things the system and serge are absolutely 1st class . love it had argo navis first. whata a pita that was compared

yes, because she noticed it was wrapped in last years duvet cover 😁

mine is in the garage

hide it behind the hoover she will never look there 🤣 try and hide a 20" dob then

thanks iain thank you iapa i will try pets at home tomorrow

Iain, where do you get this from ? cant find any thanks

even im my 20" dob m31 can be a bit poor. yes dustlanes are visible. but m51 is amazing arms everywere and the centre as bright as you like, also m101 pinwheel 2 of my favourites there. like john says m81/82 are better, 1 edge on and 1 face on. brilliant

beautiful

my colimation concentric circles thing came today from ts optics. good service only 4 days and no tax charges

best filters on the market. got the h beta as well but cant have until my b day. wait until you see the veil with that. hold your jaw though 🤣