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  1. Naemeth
    Completely agree with the previous posters here. Worth noting that to safely view the sun with human eyes it requires reflecting 99.999% of sunlight, whereas it is around 99.99% for cameras. If you let more energy than that to the camera you risk wrecking your camera sensor, or your eyesight if you look through it.
  2. Naemeth
    Yes, I’ve used them and can say they are certainly worth the money - a step up compared to other plossls and worth investment as if treated with care will last you a long time. The two downsides to plossls are less eye relief (they aren’t uncomfortable, but usually don’t give enough for wearing glasses) and a smaller field of view - for that in the TeleVue range you’d be looking at much more expensive eyepieces. If you can, I’d suggest seeing if you can find some second hand, if you don’t like them then sell on, and if you do you’ve saved the extra cost of getting new.
  3. Naemeth

    Only 10 minutes outside with the binoculars gave me a nice reminder of why I love this hobby. 

    Even with bad skies and light pollution.

    The Moon will forever be one of my favourites.

  4. Naemeth

    SGL, it's been a while!

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    2. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      To be honest, I've lost count :D. 

      The weather hasn't been great - but I've not had much observing chance! Hoping to get back into the swing of things though

    3. Pig

      Pig

      Hiya Jonathan...... Nice to see you back on here :happy11:

    4. YKSE

      YKSE

      Weather has been not that good here either, just haveto enjoy the opportunities it gives.:happy7:

  5. Naemeth

    Clearest nights when you are at work, cloudiest skies when you're enjoying time away from work. Need I say more?

    1. mrjonathanbrown

      mrjonathanbrown

      Im at work right now and yep clear skies.

    2. gooseholla

      gooseholla

      Cloudy here and i'm off, so don't feel too bad!

    3. David Smith

      David Smith

      Was off last week, nothing but cloud and rain:(

  6. Naemeth
    I'm sure I've got one or two of your ex eyepieces. I've also got a few of your scopes too .
  7. Naemeth

    77 notifications greet me upon return...

    1. gooseholla

      gooseholla

      I had none lol

  8. Naemeth
    Most of my astro equipment has been stored elsewhere for the past few months whilst building work has been going on and stargazing has been patchy at best (due to work/bad weather combination). I'm sure that will change when everything is moved back . It's not a course of treatment I'd recommend for anyone.
  9. Naemeth
    I'm cured of my eyepiece buying impulses. At least for now .
  10. Naemeth
    Famous last words... .
  11. Naemeth
    Used the forecast yesterday for deciding whether or not to wear a waterproof coat - got both there and back without getting wet - as forecast . Serves as a good day time forecast as well as a night one .
  12. Naemeth
    For Southern UK astronomers, yes. For Northern astronomers.... we'll have to wait until the end of July / mid August.
  13. Naemeth
    Looks great as part of my signature .
  14. Naemeth
    Are you planning on doing an auto cut-off for the forecast based on time - in a similar way to how it's done on the BBC website? (i.e. If it's 1pm, only the forecast for 1pm and later will be shown)
  15. Naemeth

    I just noticed I've got a dime in my wallet. Looks quite a lot like a 5p coin but certainly shouldn't be used as one ;).

  16. Naemeth
    You'd only want one .
  17. Naemeth
    Bravo chaps, bravo . Bookmarked
  18. Naemeth

    Installation of OSX Lion was a success, seems to have fixed a few problems I've been having - in the process now of moving everything over to the new operating system (my hard drive has 2 partitions at the moment, one running Snow Leopard and one running Lion, still a lot of testing to see which I prefer though ;).

  19. Naemeth

    Going to finally experience OS X Lion, on a partition on my hard drive that is. I wouldn't want all of my apps to start crashing ;).

  20. Naemeth

    1 month to go and all the building work and decorating will be completely finished, building work should be done in 2 weeks and then I can finally get my scopes out of hibernation - just in time for the solstice, typical!

    1. emadmoussa

      emadmoussa

      It's June anyway...

  21. Naemeth

    Computer is now fine. Shouldn't have panicked in the end :).

    1. emadmoussa

      emadmoussa

      I thought you were gone for two weeks :D

  22. Naemeth

    I won't be on SGL for the next week or two - my laptop no longer works probably due to a hard drive failure. This may mean a new computer which means I'll have to delay getting my AZ-EQ6 even longer :(. See you all on the other side.

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    2. Pig

      Pig

      See you soon young Jonathan :-)

    3. faulksy

      faulksy

      cant you use your phone, i lost internet not long ago for 5 days, drove me mad

    4. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      My phone doesn't have that capability. I'll occasionally get chances to use other laptops / computers (like now), but not regularly....

  23. Naemeth

    I'm impressed - the last astro thing I bought was 6 weeks ago!

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    2. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      I am okay :). With all the building work going on (nearly finished) I cannot get anything else due to dust and lack of space. Have no fear though, an AZ-EQ6 GT is on the cards after the work is done :D.

    3. Luke

      Luke

      Ooh, very nice. Those mounts seem to make a lot of sense. Are you going to go imaging mad next season? We're using an HEQ5 even though it's really just Alt-Az that we need now and we're not likely to do any DSO imaging in the near future.

    4. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      Perhaps a bit mad. The AZ-EQ6 will be the base for widefield imaging (DSLR + Nifty Fifty), deep sky (ED80), planetary (OMC200), white light solar (ST80) and in time a rather ambitious project which I'll post about when I'm ready to reveal (once it's set-up!) ;).

  24. Naemeth

    The work on the house is nearing final stages, probably two weeks or so left... then I can bring my scopes out again :D.

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    2. Knight of Clear Skies

      Knight of Clear Skies

      The end of dustmageddon is in sight?

    3. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      Yes, the worst (for me) is still to come though...

    4. emadmoussa

      emadmoussa

      It's summer anyway...another month or two or hibernation wouldn't cost you much :)

  25. Naemeth

    Scopes packed away for house work next week. Dust here we come....

    1. tingting44

      tingting44

      nice bit of spring cleaning :D

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