Luke
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Wohoo! My replacement Quark eyepiece-side solar h-alpha filter is on its way from SCS Astro. Only been without the Quark for a few days and I am missing it like crazy! My fave scope to use with it for visual is the SW ED100, they make a great combo.
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Wohoo, my replacement Quark solar hydrogen alpha "eyepiece" has arrived at SCS Astro! I have sent my faulty one back today and look forward to the replacement one. Big thanks to SCS Astro for letting me use the faulty one while waiting for the replacement :)
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The main problem with my one is there are three little indents on the inside of the red filter (which I guess is the blocking filter?). I get some blobs in the view with the eyepiece. I think I just got unlucky, most folks seem to have a nice clean filter :) The device itself, wow, amazing! Bar the faults, best thing I have ever bought for astro :) There's an image of the main problems with my Quark here:
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2913/14517687944_203dcf28e8_c.jpg
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Just a single cloud in the sky on Solar Sunday!! :) Long and thin and passing right over the Sun, boohoo!
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Yikes, while I was having breakfast out in the Sun with the h-alpha scope, the cat sneaked in and ate my breakfast!! She showed no signs of remorse, it looked more like she requires toast with marmalade and orange juice tomorrow morning.
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Arghh! Why, when I order 5 small astro items, is the one item I really wanted the only one missing in the package? :( Boo hoo!
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Busted! Note to self: Next time, get the contraband astro gear sent to work, not to home... :-o
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I now have a rival for my favourite eyepiece! The plucky challenger is the 3.5mm Delos, taking on the mighty (expensive) 21mm Ethos. Super lunar closeups with a frac versus wide(ish) DSO views with decent exit pupil with a fast dob. I think the 3.5mm may be ahead on points! :-o
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First light tonight for my 3.5, 4.5 and 6mm Delos eyepieces. I spent a fun 30 minutes on the Moon using my 85mm frac, the highlight being the complex area around Julius Caesar crater. Floaters were not too much of a problem with the 3.5mm. I can see all three will get a lot of use on the Moon.
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Tonight I fitted a replacement part to my 400P Goto dob that Teleskop Service kindly sent me to replace a broken part. Although the scope was under warranty, I can see that some suppliers might not have agreed it was a warranty issue. So a big thanks to TS for helping me to get the dob fixed :)
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Wohoo, 3.5mm, 4.5mm and 6mm Delos eyepieces have arrived. Hopefully, that's the eyepiece collection complete! For the third or fourth time!!
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Yikes, BBC weather is showing rain for every single hour for the next 48 hours our way :-o
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Wohoo, new toys have arrived: Tele Vue Mars Type B filter and TV Planetary filter. I might even carry on observing thru Summer! :-o
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First proper test tonight of Baader Sky Surfer V red dot finder. Very nice bit of kit! :))
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A dream came true today: Sarah and my Tele Vue 85 has arrived. It is love at first sight! Hope to see the Moon through it tonight, hopefully the clouds are held up in customs.
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Hooray! Replacement part for my 400P dob is on its way via the folks at Teleskop Service. Thanks, TS! :)))
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Very excited, Sarah and I should get our Tele Vue 85 this week :)
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Today we received a lovely William Optics 1.25 inch diagonal in the post. About one year after selling a lovely William Optics 1.25 inch diagonal! :D
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Well last night was very interesting. I got out to image the Moon and gave up soon as thin cloud / fog sucked up most of the brightness of the view. Was about to pack away when I thought I'd try a 7nm H-a filter. WOW! It certainly cut through the fog a bit. Will be interesting to see how the images come up. I slowed the frame rate down to just 5FPS at one point.