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Hello and welcome to SGL, All new scopes come with a free 'Box of Clouds', they escape when box is opened! Peter

Our speaker for October 1st will be Dr Chris Pearson talking about 'Ariel & Alien Worlds: Enabling planetary science across light years', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At end of the meeting there will be tea/coffee and biscuits, all welcome. More details are www.wasnet,co,uk Peter

I was also at the same place, great views of the eclipse and the weather was very clear. Notice the temperature dropped pretty quickly when the sun got near the horizon? Peter

Our first speaker of the new season will be Steve Tonkin talking about 'Time & Calandars', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend Nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00. At the end of Steve's talk tell will be a short AGM followed by tea/coffee and biscults, all welocome. More details are www.wasnet,co,uk Peter

Thank you the comments folks and the long answer to my problem Sandy. As you might guess I am not that great with computer software but will go thru your suggestions one step at a time and see what happens, will report back later. Peter

Hi Sandy, Thank you for the link, which drivers would I need to download, using Windows 7 currently? Peter

We do have a meeting in December each year since I have been the speaker person for this club?

Hello SGL, Tonight I uploaded Stellarium 0.19 version, every time I try to open it it seems to crash after coming up with a warning (picture below), could somebody explain this statement to me in simple English (if possible please?) and how i can over come it. I have tried it in 32 and 64 bit version but have same problem. Thank you for looking. Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for June will be SGL's Owen Brazell talking about 'Observing Planetary Nebula', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00 on the 4th. All welcome. Peter

Thanks Mike, I will have to link my scope to the computer and hopefully get the problem solved, currently I am using the old version of putting everything manually. Peter

Hello Ceramus, I might catch up with you in Bella Vista as I am also with Astrotrails route 6. Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for May will be Mark Radice talking about 'Observing the Solar System', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00 on the 7th. All welcome. Peter

Hi Tom and Gaj, Thank you for that, I will look into the thread and see what that can help me? Peter

Hello SGL, Hopefully somebody will be able to help me out about wrong date? I went out last night to do some viewing, going thru my usual set ups (after getting GPS fix) I went to first star align (Arcturus, after putting scope in home position), telescope should have gone left but for some reason it went right! I re did set up on another two tries and both times the scope went right, er? Next time I let the scope go thru whole set up and decided to manually check date, time etc. Time was okay but for some reason date was 25 Aug 2099, time travel for the scope? I did have a viewing session after I did a manual input to change date. Any way I tried to set up again this morning, time was fine but for some reason date was reading 26th Aug 2099? Is there a problem with GPS system or do I have a problem with the hand controller or something else within the scope? If anybody has seen this before or has an idea of what is wrong I would be most grateful for an answer as I am at a total lost for ideas. Thank you in advance. Peter

Wiltshire AS speaker for April will be Martin Griffiths talking about 'Universal Death or How the Universe is trying to kill us', the meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Rusty Lane, Seend nr Melksham SN12 6NS with a start time of 20:00 on the 2nd. All welcome. Peter