wookie1965

Just now, callisto said:

If it's from a three lettered used astro site I was thinking of pressing the button on it but was cautious about the condition of the lenses 🤨 

Hope you can sort it out without compromising the glass 🤞

Yes it is and I really should not of got it as I have been shafted before from them with the Meade 127mm, the flint and crown where the wrong way around and the focuser was plastic jumped around all over the place I got a Skywatcher dual speed focuser and had a adapter plate made cost me over £250 I really should never have sold that. 

All excited when this arrived until I unpacked it there are smudges on the inside of the optical cell maybe I can clean that

Worse is it won't take 1.25mm eyepieces and the vixen plates I have don't fit it needs narrower ones. 

I need help scope turned up but my Vixen plates don't fit they need to be narrower but the worst thing is it cannot take 1.25mm eyepieces as you can see in the pictures can anyone help me please. 

Nice 1.25mm diagonal from  Joe (badhex) go nicely with my Vixen 102M when it arrives. 

I will have to get there one day in the process of looking for a car as I am struggling getting in and out of the vectra, 

It's a brilliant car never put a foot wrong but needs must then I need a new tent the Berghaus one was brilliant but was too big once in the boot struggling get anything in with it. 

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/blog/cleaning-a-newtonian-mirror.html

8 hours ago, Flame Nebula said:

Hi Wookie, 

What make and model of refractor was it? 

 

It was a Meade EMC 127mm which I had put a skywatcher dual focuser on, I should never have sold it really.

I've seen it once in a 5" Refractor I put Sirius A on the edge of the FOV. 

Brilliant book I have had it for years. 

21 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

M1 can be a pig! Back in the early 80's i could find it on most nights when well placed through my 12X60 binoculars. Today it can give me the run-around. I recon much depends on sky transparency, I blame aircraft vapour trails and all these astronomers flying abroad in search of clear skies! ✈🛩🛫🛬

It's close to a year since I saw it last. It was the first object I looked for using my new Altair 30mm Ultra Flat after getting home from the practical astronomy show. The sky must have been transparent as M1 immediately stood out as large as life in my FC100DZ. I haven't looked for it since!

 I've found it helps to block out peripheral stray light using a black blanket or hood, as its often the light around us that causes most harm.

 

Funny you should say that I've got a hoddie my mum has sewn extra to the hood using special material so it doesn't flop so I will try that. Although I've not been out since the 1st week in December weather has been awful, only clear night has been on a night when there has been a full moon. 

I am hoping to get to the PAS this year. 

4 minutes ago, NGC 1502 said:

Wishing you all the very best with the Vixen.

My only comment is to be cautious about selling the Tal.  It will take several sessions with the Vixen to fully evaluate. Best is if you can use both scopes at each session on a variety of objects.

But it’s a great “problem” to have😊

Ed.

I have been told I can split Tegmine with the vixen something I have not been able to do with the Tal if it does split that I will know what I will do.

I was going to buy a lovely scope off a member here but this came up and with all the reviews I jumped at it, if it is as good as everything I have read I will sell my Tal. 

Should receive it in 3-8 days cannot wait what do people think.

34 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

The longer you study them the more subtle the detail. Mallas was more of an inspiration to me in a way, because I saw things that I considered to be easily discernable, but that he didn't record. Mind you, his Unitron eyepieces were far removed from what we use today. Steve O'Meara on the other hand, although also using a 4" refractor, makes too much of a big deal about observing from the slopes of a Hawaiian volcano. This has definitely led some to imagine their own more mainland suburban situation is hopeless for Messier hunting, which is simply untrue!

Here are just a few from the suburbs of a misty, often cloud plagued, north of England mill town.

M1 (5" refractor)

M45 and the Merope nebula (4" refractor)

M57 the Ring Nebula (4" refractor)

M27 the Dumbbell Nebula (4" refractor)

M97 the Owl Nebula (4" refractor)

M33 spiral galaxy (4" refractor)

M78 nebula in Orion (4" refractor)

M82 edge on galaxy  (4" refractor)

Mrs the Great Orion Nebula (4" refractor)

M81 face on spiral (4" refractor)

 

 

Those are really cracking drawings and mostly done with a 4" I'm bortle 8 so I doubt I will get all of them. I have had M42, M57. M13 was like a smudge and I couldn't even get M1. 

Be nice to see what they look like through a 4 or 5" Refractor obviously going to be smaller and from light polluted skies. 

My will to live. 

7 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

Okay, how bad was having them removed?

I also have two, both my big toes that need it done.

But in total honesty, when it comes to teeth, eyes and nails I'm a chicken!

To be honest very easy I have had both my big toenails off the two toes next to them and now the middle toes, These were stinging a bit yesterday but are fine now I go back later to have them changed. I am not phased by needles at all you have two injections in each toe at the top to numb it and you need someone to take you and pick you up as if you have a crash you will not be covered by your insurance although that is in the UK not sure how it works in the USA.

Yes I've used it for ages. 

This piece needs to be attached you won't get a view without it. 

You can use either a 2" eyepiece or use a 2-1.25mm adapter like the one that is on. 

It made me get rid of my 10" Celestron Starsense as I couldn't see anything. 

Stick to my refractors at least they can punch through and I can get doubles and triples. 

21 minutes ago, MalcolmP said:

I wish you had not said that, I have one that I ought to get seen to 

 

These are the 5th and 6th I've had off not that bad actually only stinging a bit until I got home and put my feet up. 

I had two toenails removed this morning and was told to keep my feet up to aid the healing process so I have not been able to go out with my kit. 

Really cracking pictures. 

Absolutely fantastic drawings, the spots are brought to life really brilliant.

A warm welcome to SGL

Tal 100rs Herschel Wedge 25,20and 15mm eyepieces with a polarising filter. Taken with a S21

I have just got some pictures in my Tal 100rs with a Herschel wedge .