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faulksy

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  1. Phone is playing up Mirror cleaner 🤣
  2. Mirror cleaning fluid. Finally got some Also ordered a 2" concentric collimation thing from ts optics. Says 11 days but it's just landed in the UK 😁
  3. that is a brilliant report. made up for you both
  4. not to sure. i seem to remember what you say is correct though. only bought it xmas
  5. they used to do star gazing nights at delamere forset. thats not far from liverpool
  6. thats ok then, dont be tempted with cork/felt or ptfe because they can cause astigmatism especially with your lovely nichol mirror
  7. looks brilliant. what pads are you using for your mirror ?
  8. orion optics uk could have one. they often stock small ones
  9. 1 hour to my local spot which is mag 21. 45. or like calv elan around 2 hrs hence moving to spain next year with bortle 2 skies
  10. m81/m82 in the plough are easy so is m31. hang in there you will get it 😁
  11. very nice set mark. you really don't need any more than that
  12. i take it your just doing a standard mirror cell ?
  13. just recieved from FLO my 2" astronokic h beta filter and my sky quality meter. my wife tested the meter for me and got a reading of 22.49 under the duvet 🤣 not allowed to play with them yet there for my 50th next month and thats the 7th not 1st 😁
  14. diameter of my bearings are 30"(760mm) same as what webster use read my build thread
  15. my bearing width is 40mm and rocker are 35mm
  16. televue. i was going to suggest them but you went baader . which are very good apparently
  17. you will probably get double deffraction spikes with your spider offset like that. nicely made holder
  18. plywood especially good quality dampens the vibration quickly. i used birch plywood on mine
  19. you had better believe it just dont go down the green and black root. than less its chocolate
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