AndyWB

well done mate great stuff.

I'm pleased! Though now I have to try to get /good/ views of them all...

Very nice. It must be brilliant the way you feel now. No Messiers for me through a scope. Have seen the Pleiades, the Andromeda galaxy and M8 and M20 through binos though

Nice! What did you get (and why)?

Booo!

Good going, but M83 is not easy

M68 was hard enough last night - AV only...

Well done

Is it to the the AWB Double Star Catalogue or just the AB Double Star Catalogue. AWB sounds better.

I may need to consider a proper dew heater...

I use a 12V 7ah battery and can connect the 12V hairdryer via an adapter (cigarette socket for hairdryer and clips for battery).

Hmm. Yes, I'm wondering; if I started building a leisure battery type thing, I'd be tempted to just get a secondary heater...

1000" dob.....?

:D

Vastly beyond anything that exists, or is even remotely planned. To see the lunar lander for example would need a scope with a mirror larger than 600 metres if I remember correctly!

This is one of those occasions where you would have to Think outside the proverbial box and solve the question with something totallynew and revolution in the history of astronomy. Instead of thinking about aperture *which would be a ASIMHT (Astronomical Super Incredibly Mind-boggingly Huge Telescope)anyway. Instead I would opt for a system of maneuverable telescopes working in a sort of a chain. You know, you look through the first one, at your location, find the nearest one in the chain, an...

sure is and very often overlooked .but while you was in the area did you go for NGC891?

Nope, didn't know about it. Doubtful in the LP I live in, too. But it's on the list for a dark night!

nice one! imaging or viewing?

Nice. I have 39 left, but most of those will be gone within a couple of days next spring/summer.. hopfully!

Not from home - I live in the middle of town - but from this latitude, yes. And Viewing; I don't do astrophotography!

out out out out !!!!!

as dan, or is she/he curvy lol

Well, she's interesting and pretty, so I tried to get as much beauty sleep as possible. I'll need it :)

what did you get andy

Oh, sorry, just saw this. Got the Astronomik one. Had it out for a long night last Thursday (24th). Very impressed. - Best details of nebulae that I've seen.

Isn't 2:00AM often referred to as the early hours of the morning. So stay up until then.

I like your thinking, but that wouldn't have qualified... :)

But in the Status Update above this one Todd stayed up until 2:15 and reports a great night. ;-))

I'd like to observe that under our clear cloudy skies !

Seems a little harsh on the gibbons, though...

Obvious: Bigger case, with enough expansion planned in for further future additions.

If your talking about madejski stadium I used to live rose kiln lane area next to the holy brook, wasn't stargazing back then but whenever those flood lights were on it was like a light dome in the distance :)

Aye, that's the one!

Ha, that would explain the weather forecast for this evening. Sat/sun look more hopeful. Good luck with it :)

Yes, I noticed Saturday - and who's got a wedding to go to? It's never clear on the right nights!

Id be very interested in how the 6mm performes

I noticed that where I was too Andy. I gave up hunting new objects & stuck with the craters instead.

I have 2 fake sunrises at the moment, reading town centre to the ESE and some railway works NNE...and have I ever mentioned my neighbours artificial sun project before? :D

Chances are probably good that some planet somewhere actually has a dobsonian constellation...even if no one is there to name it. As for Hagrid....tis' better than "Puff the magic"? :)

Totally! I'm not complaining - I quite like the name.

welcome to the world of OCD :D

I used to check mine and fiddle,every time great news

Great move. I look forward to your first light.

Nice, good move, Probably my next scope on the list too when the time comes :)

Are you sure it wasn't the M4 :-)

You have no idea how many times I've had to explain to my friends that I'm not motorway spotting - especially when I got excited having seen M6!