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this is brilliant topic. love the opinions. and as you said @Piero lifting the dobs dress makes a amazing difference

Awesome Paul. Get a big dob mate 🤣

Stunning here Mark

That is lovely garden and location Barry. That is what I will have next year in mid Wales. Hopefully 👍

Sorry for the late reply .😁 Was hoping for 2 great nights but only the one to report. Which was Monday Sky was very transparent. Air temperature 13* Average sqm 21.4 certain parts went to 21.41 First natural target the gas giants 😝 I know it's a dark sky but Heather wanted to look. Wow so glad we did my highest power ep is the 5mm pentax (480×) oh my. The detail on Jupiter was amongst the best ever. Showed a few passers by and they really couldn't believe what they were looking at. Just wish I had a 3.5mm now. Next Saturn. Same again cassini was incredible black and so obvious. Fantastic. Next all the usual suspects now. The ring at 480x oh wow. People were saying about the colours and how it looked like a smoke ring. Dumbell stunning view nice to see stars in front of the apple core or through it. Usual clusters coming up. M13 at 480x is amazing. The prop showing up well. The veil un filtered and filtered both spectacular in the 21e never seen so much filaments coming off it. Just nebula everywhere. No maroon colour though ? Cresent nebula. Proper looking like a brain. Looks brilliant cradled in stars. Next off you might laugh but m31 (and companion galaxy's )was the best i have ever seen it. This really blew me away. The dust lanes are so massive and the detail was incredible Next up m51 you could see the cores and hints of spiral arms but quite merky in that part of the sky. Usual galaxy's of course m81,82 101 but sky was getting a bit milky Cleared a bit to see m45 mepore but it was now 4 AM . So packed up and went to bed. Very happy Enjoy and dark skys

Oh my gowd. How good is the seeing tonight I have made a few people on the site happy tonight. More in a bit 😁

Hi Peter. Yes it's a silver side roof protector for a tent. Trying to keep the heat off it 👍

Dob is out cooling at brecon (pencelli) Ready for tonight

Good man. 👍

very nice work there francis. looking foward to the next step

if you go dark you can still see the veil without a filter. but better with it👍

Let's hope it's clear as I go to brecon for a week on Saturday. Got my dobby ready 🤪

great idea rob. our scopes must be related somehow 🤣

good man

just wanted to say it was my dobs 6th birthday yesterday HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOBBY 😍 from your creator

had my dob set up for the last 2 nights. no clear skys. very brief look at the gas giants saturday for 10 mins

Just put a silver heat reflecting tarp up with some king poles to keep the heat down on my dob. Does anyone else do anything like this

i seen it last night, pure look. sky was awful couldnt see saturn naked eye. scope is out now though for tonight

ace photo damo

ace photo damo

ace photo damo

ace photo damo

the truss holders on the mirror box use the same design as moonlight. very nice

shame its not a truss though

middle photo looks spot on