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wookie1965

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  1. 33 minutes ago, Saganite said:

    Thanks Paul I appreciate your comment and it was a great shame you couldn't make it, but one of these days.

    It is a lovely scope and I count myself fortunate to have got it , but the reality is that I almost certainly see no more than you do with your scopes.

    Take care

    Thanks Steve I was really looking forward to it, not done any astro since the first week in December, when I found out about this it gave me a nudge to try and sort myself out and stop feeling so bad, I had motivation. 

    My son looked at car last night and said best get a mechanic I rang a friend and sent him a video so cambelt change now £400 what could I have bought with that money. 

    Gutted beyond belief been feeling terrible all day. Arr well there is always next year if I am here. 

  2. 2 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

    Underwhelming is being kind. I have to say I found the venue and the number of vendors somewhat disappointing. Even the food on offer wasn't what we've been used to, with dry bread with either fatty bacon or the healthier sausage option. I had sausage on a dry bap with what I think was coffee.  That aside, I had chance to meet up with saganite (Steve), who may not be heard from again once his dearly beloved finds out what he's bought. And Alan W and paulastro was there too, making up a small group of SGLers.

    I did manage to buy a couple of eyepieces I've been after for a while. Now I have the full range! And also joined the Society for the History of Astronomy, and received a nice welcome pack, a hand full of free magazines and I also bought a couple of second hand books that caught my eye.

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    I would of loved to have been there could not take the chance on a 200mile round trip with a dodgy water pump been quoted £400 for it to done with a new cambelt.

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  3. Well I am gutted I cannot get there had a knocking on the car its either the alternator pully or the cambelt pulleys neither of which I want to be doing a 200mile trip. So trip to the garage Monday morning. 

    I was so looking forward to this been really down for a while now not being able to get out because of the weather and medical problems.

    Well chaps its the water pump so definitely cambelt change. 

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  4. 11 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

    @wookie1965

    Just for clarity here is a diagram of how the lens arrangement should be, with the crown facing the stars…..

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    Yes that is what I have now, the flint has 2 pieces of scotch magic tape the third position looks like a piece of tinfoil. 

    A devil to keep in place but managed it. 

  5. 3 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

     In a Fraunhoffer it's usual for the front Crown element to be convex on both surfaces, while the rear Flint element has a concave surface facing forward while the rear facing surface looks almost Flat, though it isn't. If the flint is forward you may have spherical aberration.

    The flint has a flat back and concave front pointing forward the crown to be honest does have two convex surfaces one more so than the other, what flummoxed me was the lens where marked and as most people would do I had the arrows pointing at each other.

    Whoever opened it must not be an astronomer as I would think 99.9% would mark them up pointing at each other not both the same way. 

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  6. 31 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

    Perfectly reasonable to have the markings pointing outwards as that is the direction they face.  However, the convention is usually to have the arrows facing each other as the apex of both then also determines the radial location.     🙂

    It was dweller25 who said try it and I thought someone else may have marked them that way it was worth a try. 

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  7. 3 hours ago, dweller25 said:

    Result 👍🙂

    It was you who suggested flipping the mirror over so both arrows point out not the way I would of marked it but there it is, it was the only configuration left. the person who had it before cut  the back off the little cap on the dust cap  and put solar film in so before I got the wedge out I pointed it at the Sun and just looked through all blurred but when I started to focus I could see the spots I was doing a jig all around the garden.

    Put the wedge in and the celestron zoom focused I could not believe how good it looked went down to 8mm and was still focused there were a few whoops of joy I must say.

    Cannot wait now get a session in the dark.

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  8. I have had one for months but not had a good chance to give it a good review hopefully the weather picks up I have not been out since the first week in December. 

    Won't work in the Tal with the herschel wedge won't focus. 

  9. Hi fellow SGLers who is going to this year's event at the new destination, as this will be my first time I would like to know who to look out for. 

    Paul 

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  10. 17 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

    Here is a diagram that someone did when they had the same issue..

    I would suggest as your configuration is not working that you just flip the thin top lens over so that both arrows point in the same direction and give that a try to see if you get improvement.

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    I was thinking that worth a try I dont know how the person marked it up, I would have put the arrows pointing together but someone else could have done just what you said point them the same way.

  11. 25 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

    Did it work OK when you first received it ?

    I could not try it because I had to send for the Baader adapter and the lens was dirty so I took it out to clean it then chipped one of the pieces so I cannot send it back. 

    I have just took it apart now here are the photos. 

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