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Ant

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  1. Anyone watching The Orville? I was pleasantly surprised. Sort of like Star Trek crossed with Red Dwarf.

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      Ant

      Wish they'd stop talking bloody klingon. I have subtitles!!! 

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  2. Anyone watching The Orville? I was pleasantly surprised. Sort of like Star Trek crossed with Red Dwarf.

    1. Ant

      Ant

      There is an episode coming up (Episode 7), thats rather close to home right now.

      I'm really enjoying them, must catch up - got about 10 to watch !

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  3. Anyone watching The Orville? I was pleasantly surprised. Sort of like Star Trek crossed with Red Dwarf.

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Yeah I've been watching it for a few months. Really good fun :)

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  4. It's such a shame that few members of Stargazerslounge take part in seti@home. Even the Founder of our team at seti@home appears not to contribute anymore, though he/she seems reluctant to give up control!   lol

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Why is that very sad?

      It's a SGL group, a group that i started some years ago, why would you want to take over a group that you didn't start. 

      I guess the control comment you made applies even more to you than me. At least i want to maintain control of the group i started and not try to get control of other peoples groups.

      Quite sad really, I agree....

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  5. It's such a shame that few members of Stargazerslounge take part in seti@home. Even the Founder of our team at seti@home appears not to contribute anymore, though he/she seems reluctant to give up control!   lol

  6. Just passed the Life in the UK test! Yuppieee!

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Congratulations. I just took a sample test and Failed lol 

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  7. My Skyris 274 a £700 camera has decided to packup on me.

    I think that this is probably the final straw. I no longer had the time, inclination or funds to carry on with this hobby. 

     

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Look like a combination of issues. 

      The camera appears to have got confused. The usb lead I think has a fault, and lastly the laptop wasn't plugged in and I think wasn't supplying enough power through the port. 

      I think it might be sorted :) Big thanks to Grant. 

       

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  8. My Skyris 274 a £700 camera has decided to packup on me.

    I think that this is probably the final straw. I no longer had the time, inclination or funds to carry on with this hobby. 

     

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Just checked and it's within warranty- so all is not lost.

      But with every little problem with will to carry on diminishes - all i wanted to do was 30 minutes with the scope to capture some data.... once again I cannot.

      So will it be another 6 months before I get a chance? At what point do I admit that I don't do it anymore?

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  9. Just received this photo by text along with the "What the hell have you bought now?" question. :icon_biggrin: Pity I am not going to be home from work until 7 tonight.... just hope opening the box doesn't negate the potentially clear night we have forecast tomorrow!

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    1. Ant

      Ant

      Might negate the possibility of your dinner not being in the dog :) Enjoy! 

       

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  10. do I have to follow people for them to see my public messages? Not sure who to follow.

     

    1. Ant

      Ant

      You don't have to follow anyone. 

      Just post the messages that you want in any existing or new thread and everyone can see your post and reply. 

      Cheers

      Ant

  11. Hi Ant. I have inadvertently posted an update on the wanted section.

    Is it possible to move it to telescope section.

    apologies for the error.

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Hi, 

      All moved.

      I did wonder if the DIY section would have been better? But its currently in the Scopes/Whole setup section. 

      Cheers

      Ant 

  12. Saw the northern lights last night!  A dream come true (although I did have to go to Iceland to see them).

    1. Ant

      Ant

      blumming fantastic mate. Nice one! Hope you got lots of pics for us ? :)

       

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  13. Does this site support animated GIFs as profile pics? I know I saw someone who had one but mine only worked when I uploaded it. Everywhere else it's stuck on frame 1...

    1. Ant

      Ant

      maybe something to ask in the Suggestions, Bugs, Errors and Foibles section?

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  14. That awful gutted feeling you get when you review the data from last night's sesh, to find that somewhere along the line you knocked everything out of focus :(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Or in a number of my sessions, you realise that you never finished focusing in the first place lol.

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  15. Just sat having a beer on the patio outside my lodge at centre parcs and a badger appeared from no where,i didnt realise they were so big!

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      Ant

      I must admit that on the one occasion I saw one, i was shocked at the size of them :)

      Have a good break mate!

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  16. I don't believe it! Weekend forecast is 100% cloud, yet again! Where are the sunny weekends?

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Maybe they've gone for a mid week break at Centre Parcs?

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  17. Aargh, windows update decided to happen just as I was setting my scope up, took 45 minutes. Then firecapture didn't want to work and now clouds. :(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Mmmm think mines a little more terminal than that. Tried restore point, reinstalling drivers and software, ccleaner. Glad your sorted though :)

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  18. Aargh, windows update decided to happen just as I was setting my scope up, took 45 minutes. Then firecapture didn't want to work and now clouds. :(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      How did you fix this. I cannot get ICapture or Firecapture to even see the cameras (even though windows device manager sees them). I cannot even get windows restore to work either now... Aaaarrrrggghhhhhh

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  19. Something's gone wrong with the natural order. I actually got to see the eclipse!

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Me too, quite amazing really considering what the weather usually does to us :)

  20. great to see SGL usings its profile to warn about eclipse safety.

    1. Ant

      Ant

      I'll give it a go fella. No promises though :)

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  21. great to see SGL usings its profile to warn about eclipse safety.

    1. Ant

      Ant

      Got to do your bit for safety haven't you? :)

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  22. Pants - every image I took last night was out of focus. All gone in the bin :(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      We all seem to have these nights... does make me wonder why we all continue sometimes :)

      Hows the IOM?

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  23. Pants - every image I took last night was out of focus. All gone in the bin :(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      won't happen again lol. I have downloaded the software to actually view the images from the dSLR - that should aid focusing a little. Also Simon recommended APT. So I'll give that a go too.

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  24. i am getting a 6 dob

    1. Ant

      Ant

      I have the SW 6" F8 Dob - it's awesome.

  25. Stacking 110 x 10mb CR2 files, with Darks, Flats and Bias. Target is Lovejoy - DSS is not happy, up to about 4 hours processing time:(

    1. Ant

      Ant

      I never thought of that. I'll have a look. Might be under the Output tab? If I find anything I'll let you know.

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