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thats sweet mate glad we have both had a good night in between the clouds :D

And there you were questioning whether to put it out or not!!

i know lol, really be kicking myself now wouldnt i lol :D

My long sighted glasses make things slightly bigger, but I still have worse eyesight than my brother with 20/20 vision even with glasses on >:(

I thought you were trolling at first mate :P

This is what I am thinking, surely it isn't naked eye anymore but a slight, in theory, advantage and magnification?

Uni of central Lancashire. Their distance education one.

brilliant! I'm a fan of distance learning, makes studying so much easier! :) enjoy

Indeed it does. I did some OU stuff a few years back. Was so nice to be able to do more or less when I wanted.

Its mad, when I was 20 I'd work out in the snow in a t-shirt. Now 10 years on, the slightest chill in the air and I'm under a cover on the sofa! Cold definitely gets me when observing nowadays.

Money well spent I reckon. I'm the same even this time of year I wear full on winter kit. Better too hot than cold and being uncomfortable!

Went out In my two fleeces tonight. Didn't feel cold. Moment I took them off in the house realised how cold it was! Best £28 spent I think.

hurah!

A thousand huzzas and hurahs!!

ps...delete this before Mrs K sees it :) lol

Shhhhh. don't tell emadmoussa you can view things with the street lights on. ;-))

Sounds like you had a good night. Wish our streetlights went off at midnight. People round here get scared if one bulb goes out!

Yeah was good. I wish security lights would go out round here! But yeah, tis nice to have the street lights go off.

Congratulations on seeing it, I have yet to spy this massive expanse. I have an OIII filter coming so hopefully start viewing this as a regular target. There is an amazing image if you simply search 'veil in UV'. It looks like a skull with a star in one socket. Unreal :)

Went back and saw some more of it tonight. It is such an amazing sight!

I located the area with my widest field EP & with no access to the OIII stared at the black absence of the veil. The LP here washed out much of the sky so concentrated on some doubles.

OIII should be here today (yay!).

didnt i buy a bottle of wonder fluid from you hobsey?

Nope, I wouldn't be silly enough to sell it.

Yup it was a bargain, but only because i purchased a £200 telescope 2 years ago :D

No other reports of this and plenty of topics getting posted - what area where you trying to post in? Can you try and post a topic in the bugs forum and see if that works?

It is any area in chrome or IE. Been going on since I returned to this site a week or so ago. I'll try and post in a bit. 

Can post in there but anywhere else it says site cannot be reach. Connection reset. 

nice one .

M33? There's also NGC670,672,750,777,890,925 and 949 in Triangulum! plenty to see!

Nick.

M33. Going through Messiers at the moment, NGCs later on (probably next year).

Great stuff buddy :-)

Fantastic stuff looking forward to it.

Well done mate, be sure to share the 1st reports and images etc :) looking forward to hearing the results.

Is that a public site?

Yeah it was on a feed from some American university and also on youtube some people had a feed going

Ok cool I will have a look, thanks

I guess too many of us dismiss it. That includes me, I can get as far as 1) that is the moon, and, 2) Tycho.

Don't get me wrong, I love the moon once I'm looking at it. Got some good rough sketches of craters tonight and learned my way around some more... it is just getting motivated to look at the moon - I guess I am lazy and my mind tells me: seen one crater, seen them all.

Ronin thats not bad really. Now for #3) Birt & Birt A & Straight wall.

Although #1 & 2 are really good.

A hearty congratulations, well done.

Rich

Thanks. After seeing the syllabus and books involved, start to wonder what i've taken on!!!

I'm sure you will be fine once you get started. Wish I could do something like that, but just haven't got the time.

I have the idea, based on little that I can give as 100% proof, that when it has stopped raining they will still be there and not look a lot different.

Except that by 2 weeks time they be behind the trees of neighbours garden so gone from my sight for another year.

So it is either clouds or trees. At this exact time I have thunderstorms. I gave up observing from home, I now simply go elsewhere to one of the places I know of. Cannot see keyboard to type - VERY VERY dark all of a sudden. Off to build an Ark.

Telread+28mm finder EP = lots of objects in one night :)

That it surely does! Although in my case it is a 20mm eyepiece. I have a panaview 26 or 28mm, but it rarely sees the light. Poor little eyepiece.

Superb, don't leave it on for a week !doooh!

sounds awsome! with work and the moon i only get maybe a chance of 2 nights out of a month to image lately if im lucky :(

Yeah I was like that when I worked, but a situation has allowed me to take a few months off, so I can view this autumn and winter!

what do you mean finish your scope. what are you building. please tell

I've been building an 18" truss dobsonian, in the style of Obsession.

Good night, I assume ?

Well, good two hours!!! FIrst time I tried the mirror out on DSOs and well, if M3 is an indication of what Is to come, then WOW!

Was it not cheaper buying a 2nd hand telrAd

Nope! Glass was £8 or £9, but meh, the telrad didn't cost me anything to start with, so still up.

enjoy...

With a good barlow it has the power to replace all my current eyepieces bar 5 and 6 mm... Hopefully a. I've actually got the eyepiece and b. it works well in my scope

Had a look through a mate's 20mm... stunning views, you will love this EP. I'm seriously tempted to get one to replace my 28mm Nirvana.

I'll leave it even more as it was 250 euro posted! That came to £193...

John is a top bloke isn't he :-)

Indeed he is.

you and me both mate

must spend ....must spend....not long until pay day...

Good news.Mars and Saturn have provided xcellent views the last two nights.