AndyWB

Good going, but M83 is not easy

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

Well done

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!

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

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

Great move. I look forward to your first light.

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

I'm thinking solid over flex - solid would fit across the back of my car still. But which one? SW? GSO? OO(!)?

For me that was easy as SW are the only ones to do the flex, otherwise a hard call, the skyquest 10 has an RDF already ( minor point) . Overall I found it a hard call IMO, you have time to ponder :)

Unless you go for one of the more expensive orion optics ones, better optics, more expensive.

In Berks., UK, on 25th March, at least.

Looking pretty unlikely now :(

From across the border in Hampshire

Aye, it was rubbish here in the end too. Met Office were wrong!

The flaming volcanos are there! Only they are hidden beneath a thick layer of opaque clouds made of sulfuric acid. :(

And the Deathstars are hidden inside the volcanoes & doubly protected with a cloaking device. :0)

lol!

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 :)

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

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...

I expect also some people new to the hobby perhaps see the Heritage as a halfway house between a toy scope and a proper scope, because it is so small and compact. After all, it is actually less than 1 inch smaller compared in aperture compared to much bigger looking 6 inch sky-watcher DOB. I am glad I got this scope, it ain't no toy :D As bang for buck goes, I would think it must be hard to beat as an all-rounder, unless you are a lucky git like Jonathan and managed to get that 6 inch f...

.. for 50 or 60 quid, whatever it was. I've never had any luck on ebay :( expect when I press the BUY IT NOW button :D

£60. Cost £7.90 in bus fares to get there and back :).

Looks nicer than the

Pleiades in the scope !

I feel the same, we spend too much time as it is faffing with tech.

I wonder if that's why? I'm a software developer, so the last thing I want to do is fiddle with computers at home...

Yep, I'm tech free now and my asto life is much easier...

LOL...twice before I couldn't see anything then realized the scope cap was still on...

see ya then :)

:) It'd be good to put faces to names ... or handles, at least!

Im not bringing any equipment..

'Cos of the weather forecast?

Well, long story...I bought a giro mount then when it arrived it was faulty and it's been returned and currently awaiting a replacement ffrom Explore Scientific. My NEQ6 is on a pillar, which I can't use in the field. And most importantly the weather forecast is not promising - so even if I manage to secure a tripod for the EQ6, I don't see why bother really.

Nice! What did you get (and why)?

Booo!

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

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