crashtestdummy
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Life has taught me one thing fella, you cant take it with you so spend it and enjoy your life. My ep case of 4 eyepieces, a paracorr, 2x barlow and two filters is an easy way to spend just over £2k and thats just average these days.
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the mirror grind begins
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Hi,thanks for the kind comments and support.the blank is about 43mm thick and doesnt have a pregenerated curve as i wanted to do it all.im.planning it to be f3.6 as i dont want to have to use anything above a small step and im only 5'7" and on tiptoes at zenith on my 16" lightbridge!! -
looks like i will be sending my second htc one back for replacement as this one now wont connect to the pc as a removable drive and isnt recognised by htc synch!!useless pos!!!!
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Chuck Norris killed an army of 5000 with two shots,and the first one was a warning shot
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22" mirror grind phase one-bevelling!!
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2x22" blanks coming my way tomorrow :)
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sick of hearing about comets!!!!!
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please please please be clear at my dark sky site tomorrow night,its been way too long since i last had a dark observing trip and im falling behind on this years targets!!!!!
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just set up in the garden with perfevt clear skies,collimation started and then it starts raining so packed up.what a waste of time!!!!
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another dodgy weather forcast resulting in another 120mile wasted round trip.thats 4 in a row now.bbc weather you owe me money!!!on holiday for a week now so moon will be up when i get back.another wasted month :(
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cant believe ive only observed 254/7840 of the ngc's even though ive ticked the messiers and im a quarter of the way through the herschel 400.though my number would have been much higher.efforts must be doubled
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just emailed my local council about shielding some streetlights.fingers crossed
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never bothering setting up my scope on a public campsite ever again!!what a waste of time
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taking the scope to the isle of wight this weekend-fingers crossed really tightly for dark clear skies!!!
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4 dew heater taoes arrived and on test.really annoying trying to get a tape to stay on a newt secondaty,any tips?defonately need a bigger battery-fallen from 13.15v to 12.71v in less than 10mins
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well thats it for another 2 weeks as a combination of moon and clouds have made it not worth the bother.looking forward to dark autumn skies!!
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my es 100° eps are here!!seemed like much loger than 12 days!!!dont think the barlow will work with the paracorr though :(
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expensive month of astrogear and now ive just bought a new phone.hope the car sails through its mot next month or watch the for sale section
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gutted at having to pay parcelforce £13.50 to take 5 days to sort out my goods from their leeds office when it only took a week all the way from america and through customs!!atlease my eyepieces should be here tuesday!!
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I always specify using FedEx if I can as they handle international shipments all the time and are set up for it. Last thing from them arrived was handed to me then I received a payment request. Had the good in under 2 days in my hand. My experience of Parcel Force has been that they are very poor and if possible best avoided.
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not used either of the ones you have said but there are a fair few comments on the 400p if you do a search.the orion for me is way overpriced as you could get a 16" manual dob and add the goto function to it for less.i have a 16" lightbridge,not really tested it much but its promising so far but they require a few mods to make them work perfectly.the lightbridge build quality isnt as good as my skywatcher 300p was!!!the 400p by all accounts dwarfs my 16" lightbridge which is itself huge
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cant stop spending,hotech collimator on the way
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less than a week after ordering from the US and my ep's have cleared customs.lets hope parcelfarce get their act together and sort them quick!!!
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eps posted from the US on the 26/7 and as if 29/7 they are in uk customs!!please be quick through customs please.
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US order placed-ES 100 degree 20mm,14mm,9mm and a 2" 2x focal extender on the way!!paracorr should be here tomorrow.thats another £1200 to the cloud gods
