AndyWB

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!

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 :).

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.

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

LOL you may get to use it tonight

I'd be interested to hear a little report what it brings in your scope, seeing we got pretty much the same equipment :)

Will do, if I get a chance to take it out - real life is taking up a little time at the moment, and it was a bit hazy last night anyway.

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.

Yup. Being able to resolve M13 properly is one of the drivers!

Glad you got one and good luck with it. :) Resolve it you will :D clusters take on a whole new dimension, even under LP skies.

Oh, very nice! That's hopefully my next scope ...probably next month.

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...

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...

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!

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!

Good going, but M83 is not easy

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

Well done

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 :)

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. ;-))

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

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!

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

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

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.

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!

cool. what time was it ?

How was it?