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  1. David Smith

    Enough with the clouds already :BangHead:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ive got a big cloud invasion here :clouds1: havnt seen sol for two days. i think theres a chance Thursday,. hope you get some clear sky.charl.

  2. David Smith

    Finally got a look at 21P tonight.

  3. David Smith

    Gutted, beautiful sunny day and I'm stuck at work :BangHead:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      you will have to clone yourself mate,so the the clone can go to work:happy7: but dont show the clone your scopes or you might have to share,:help:charl..

  4. David Smith

    It's "Prom Day" on the Sun today, if you have H Alpha or Ca-K get out there and have a look :ohmy:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ive seen the big prom on gong and it looks very nice, still not up to sitting a the scope, my head is not there with this flu/cold/demond bug ? hopefully tomorrow ill be upto it. goodluck David i look forward to seeing your pics. charl. 

  5. David Smith

    New dual speed crayford focuser for my Evostar 120 just arrived. Should make focusing a little easier.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      nice one mate,which one you got?...

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Went for the Skywatcher version as it was  a guaranteed fit. Quite impressed. Will post some pics later.

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer thay are good,ive one on my ed80 very smooth and a nice feel to the movement, and very easy to adjust if it starts to slip.look forward to the pics.charl.

  6. David Smith

    New lappy ordered, should allow me to get better frame rates from the ASI 178. Fingers crossed.

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    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      I went for an HP Ryzen 5 2500 with 8Gig of ram and 256Gig SSD. Arrived this morning so will spend some of today seeing how it performs.

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      your going to love the Ryzen mate, thay are very good cpus, ive just updated my vr gaming rig to a 2700x, mate it wipes the floor with the top intel cpu at half the price. is yours the one with on chip vega gpu ?.

    4. David Smith

      David Smith

      Yes, vega 8 or something? Ryzen bench tests looked like this would complete with I7 cpu's so seemed like a no-brainer and £250 off in Black Friday sale too!

  7. David Smith

    Nice detached prom on display if anyone has clear skies today.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      look forward to seeing your images Dave,glad you have got some sun mate.charl 

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Thanks Charl. Can't remember the last time I had Sun on a weekend. First time this year for sure!

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      yer its been a while mate,the seeing was good when i had a few snaps at 10am.

  8. David Smith

    Oooh, sunshine! The Sun's pretty quiet but some nice proms on show in Ca-K. Anyone out?

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      na no sun here just rain. goodluck David. 

  9. David Smith

    Out watching Venus in daylight this morning before turning my attention to the Sun a bit later, hopefully!

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      clouded out here, did get a look for a few min and theres 3 proms and a bright area on the mid oncoming limb. goodluck David. charl.

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Thanks Charl, glorious here. Managed to get some WL and Ca-K data after Venus disappeared behind a tree. Hope the skies clear for you soon.

  10. David Smith

    Processing solar images....

  11. David Smith

    Typical, the Sun has spots, the clouds have parted but it's blowing a gale :angry5: No imaging for me today.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      thick cloud here mate and its raining so fast I carnt tell if its going up or down ?. carnt you find a place where the wind is blocked ?. charl.

    2. johninderby

      johninderby

      Not raining here but windy and cloudy. ?

      Don’t think you’re missing much judging by this underwhelming image grabbed off the web.

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  12. David Smith

    Well despite the clouds, rain and wind a few captures of Mercury were made. Now to process them....

     

  13. David Smith

    White light and Ca-K data grabbed before work this morning :happy11:

  14. David Smith

    Yuk, clouds :mad2:

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ill raise you a yuk and make it a yuk yuk , darn weather !. charl.

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Looks grim all day here Charl, don't know about you?

       

    3. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      same here mate, im going to be spending the day in VR in the USA after a nuclear war it should be sunny there ?.

  15. David Smith

    04:00 - Off to bed after a 5 hour session.

  16. David Smith

    110GB of Solar data to process!!

    1. Gutross

      Gutross

      wow,,,

  17. David Smith

    A bit chilly out last night!

  18. David Smith

    Actually saw some stars last night!

    1. Ganymede12

      Ganymede12

      What! Where?

    2. David Smith

      David Smith

      Clouds cleared and the moon was bright. Saturday night.

    3. Ganymede12

      Ganymede12

      Lucky!

  19. David Smith

    Ahhhh, that's better. A few hours of stellar therapy and the world seems a better place.

  20. David Smith

    Alarm set for 04:00 tomorrow to go comet hunting!

  21. David Smith

    All this speculation about Ison is doing my head in! Wait and see, no one can predictthe future and life would get really boring if we could.

    1. crashtestdummy

      crashtestdummy

      im sick of hearing about comets full stop!!!

  22. David Smith

    Almost 20:00 and it's not dark!

  23. David Smith

    Am I the only one who was clouded out this last weekend!

    1. crashtestdummy

      crashtestdummy

      Nope,it said it would be clear so carted the big heavy scope too the new forrest and wall to wall cloud again!

    2. Earl

      Earl

      Clear as a bell... no pier adapter :(

  24. David Smith

    Asteroid night tonight!

  25. David Smith

    Astro munchie time!

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