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  1. Rightly so, but sadly so nowadays. Way, way back, many centuries ago, my brother, two friends and I used to attend Cardiff Astronomical Society in our teens. Parents dropped us off and picked us up. No nonsense. Very fond memories. Excellent Society.
  2. Seriously! Plaited? Or do you use a clip or bobble?
  3. Well done! Couple of cups of tea and you will be able to add the rings to your image.
  4. When the children in school say, "But what's the difference?!" I just say, "One is science, the other is made up."
  5. Yes, but once you've found it......!!!
  6. But, if you are an 'astronomer' and have ceased to do the bottom two, I'd suggest you find a different job. 🤔 To use your analogy, if an optician has lost sight of the person whose eyes they are looking into then, personally, I'd find a different optician. And as for Sue, if you don't see a low magnitude PN located outside the plane of the Milky Way in a Dob of 3M focal length, in even vaguely the same way, then that's a bit sad, sorry. 😢
  7. I suppose it's another wonder of this splendid forum! We've professionals and non professionals alike. I'm very much a stargazer, looking up in awe and hoping the sky will be clear for the next shooting star shower! I get embarrassed if I'm referred to as even an amateur astronomer. I know what hard work goes into being a proper astronomer.
  8. Hi Don, Have I got my terminology the wrong way round then? I was thinking short FL = Wide FOV? Apologies for the confusion if I have.
  9. Maybe have a play first, and see if you think you are missing anything? Ah, she/you are worried about the expensive EPs. None of my EPs were terribly expensive, and they all work well in my 8" dob. Is it the 1200mm? If so, I find the 6mm is super on the best nights, but if the sky isn't quite there, then I need to drop back a couple of mm. You might get away with it at Bortle 3, if your skies are still, as well as clear. Is she's not using the Nagler either!? Then something in the middle would be good for the the DSOs. I like the 2° EPs for framing DSOs at shorter FLs and for the drift time at the longer FLs.
  10. Excellent! And so, if the moon is also slap bang in the middle of the finderscope, you should be able to find Jupiter.
  11. We were out in school the week before last and found Jupiter and it's 4 moons in 'scope ranging from 90mm to 200m. Should be more than possible in a 127mm. Have you tried looking at the moon? Might be worth trying to set up your 'scope on something that's relatively easy to find and focus on. If you can point the finderscope at the moon and it's slap bag in the middle of the field of view of the eyepiece then you are half way there. If not, move the 'scope around until the moon is in the middle, then centre the finderscope as people have described above. If you can up the magnification and do the same again (on a crater or the terminator, where the edge disappears into blackness), then you will should have adjusted the finder enough to find small objects like Jupiter.
  12. That's getting a bit personal, isn't it? As a parent, I try to keep all my points clean and tidy, thank you very much!
  13. Just watch your back! Mine only has to come out of the shed, but I still tend to do it in two parts.
  14. I find, at most, I only need to move my eye to see the whole field of view in an 82° ep. However, if you needed any further justification for buying low mag, wide fov eye pieces, that would appear to be not too dissimilar in magnification or field of view! I've found that (if you don't own a filter wheel) swapping between a non filtered and filtered ep of similar mag and fov when locating nebulae makes a world of difference. Star hop with the one and then swap to the other.
  15. I've never had a clear enough night to get up to (or down to? 🤔 up to the mag and down to the fl, I suppose?) 4mm on the planets in my 8" dob. 6mm on a very good night. However, I would also agree that in the 8" dob, the moon is lovely through the 4mm Nirvana.
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