SnakeyJ

I wanted to paint similar things outside, what metal paint do you use and what kind of spray gun?

Just standard car primer and paints (Unipart Grey Etching Primer and Satin Black for the top coat). I sanded everything back hard, then etch primed - the grey enabled me to see the worst of the pits and blemishes, which I then feathered out with fine sandpaper and re-prined. Ended up using three tins of each, which is rather more than I expected on a 1m OTA, but cost just under £18. By no means body shop perfect, but I'm very happy with the end result. Should be good for anot...

You can't really go down can you, take care Jake

Fair point Alan! Nice to be out exploring the mainland, but will be headin

heading back South and home again soon!

Nice, one Jake. Looking forward to seeing what you manage to get out of it!

Cheers Chris - ran smoothly for the first 7 x 300s subs, then the guiding dropped out and the next 13 were terrible. Think I started a bit closer to the meridian than I had realised!

Still got some data and tomorrow night may give another chance to catch some more subs ;)

I sincerely hope so, tonight is my one and only shot at SGL9 so ive got to make it count.

Fingers crossed for you :) Looking forwad to some nice pics, threads and stories from SGL9.

Where did you find the clear sky?!! Wet stuff here for 2nd night running.

Stunning down at this end of the world, but not sure my eyes are up to Mars again tonight - must sleep!

I almost smashed my kit last night...take things out..clouds and wind...go back inside clear...go out again...clouds again...come back inside...clear again... was absolutely disgusting.

Nice

You shouldn't view when under water.

Does the dew on my secondary count?

Jupiter of course, cards can wait until it's cloudy

It was Jupiter - but my secondary dewed up after the second run :(

Not a breath of wind here at the moment so won't be long now!

Guess it'll hit here 4hrs after you - but very wet and squally at the mo.

Same here, not bothering tonight. Still a little windy too.

I did venture out with the bins for half an hour, but the bright waxing moon was a bit of a spoiler!

RA Axis dissassembled - now to clean and relube

All rebuilt again = Big thanks Mel

And then it clouded over for an hour - then all was good again!

Yes it is where I am aswell. I had good views of the Orion Nebula and Pleiades .

Any luck? It was a little iffy last night so I didn't set up myself

Hi Dan, no it was a bust. The bloomin cloud rolled in high and obscured everything at 01:00hrs, just as I was expecting Saturn to appear from behind the trees. 3 Attempts so far this holiday and nothing to better my first attempts at Saturn in January- typical! Might get out tonight, but have to be fresh for work tomorrow so will see how it goes.

Did you manage to get anything more?

are you sure? lol

same here, skies were a little clear while forecast said cloud.

always bad when you have trouble with wind. lol

Not too bad tonight, hardly any dew. Its a cracking sky!

Yes, me too... very busy week at work... and last 12 days with clouds... :/

For me the skies are clear but it's so windy!

Darn it! No data after 40 mins as I'd not cleared an acknowledgement in APT :( Clouds rolling in now, but perhaps a few subs can be captured

Wohoo! Well done :)

ohhh yes, that was a good one!

Agreed, both Mars and Sturn were amazing,.

Same! conditions aren't great here, bit of cloud around but I'm gonna have a go.

lol what ya got now :)