jetstream

Hey what happened to you thumb ?

lol!

Eyepieces shipped!

Its nice to see experimenting going on.

While we are on the subject, do you think a Barlow in front of the Quark will cause any damage ?

Don't do it..... it may but it would need to be up the tube the right amount and some reflective UV/IR's might cause damage. Merlin66, Ward, Luke etc would know I think...

I though it might be a bit risky.... cheers Gerry:-)

WTG Mike :-)

I heard the 30mm edges out the TV and ES offerings... possibly best in class... both you guys are a very bad influence :) Which one is the favorite?

Its hard to say as I have never tried the XW 30mm, the T31 is excellent :-)

I use wool long johns and my snowmobile suit. These suits are meant to keep you warm @ 80mph on a sled The suit uses high bibs that keep the core warmth in and the jacket seals the deal. Except for the hands, I'm not cold out there really. Mind you if I'm too lazy to put the suit on it gets interesting....

Don't you just love it when your ears are so cold they feel like "busting off"?!

Here you go Gerry, these should help keep your ears warm.

https://goo.gl/images/kCmmdH

F7 should be good, to me fast starts less than f6... Does The Eudiascopic have PC or is it neutral?

No PC at all, I thought the name had a link with Euclidean...IE flat geometry

Very good to know.....thanks

Nice one Gerry, you are going to need more land to keep all your scopes on ?

This is the closest I could get to CERN whilst in Geneva, no image of the Shiva sculpture I am afraid

extension ordered (in stock) and a new spreader/tray/gps module is in the works.

I bet you have the blackfly too, coldest I have exp in Canada was -52 in Alberta, warmest 35 in Toronto.

thats cold damien

Piles of blackflies..... Wikpedia has some stats for Fort Frances....record high 108 deg F, record low -49 deg F. We get Siberian winters with hot humid summers... we love fall :)

You will love it whatever you go for. Fancy a joint owned / time share on the new Lunt 230mm with a BF3400?? :) :)

Sure! I wonder about the shipping back and forth though... :) I like the idea of the B1200 DS

I wouldn't say seeing by me is very good, which is partly why I don't image planets. Quark and ED100 I don't find to be that demanding for visual, the only reason I use smaller for visual is for portability. For imaging, that's different and a 100mm would sometimes be pushing it at times, but visual in my experience is much more forgiving than a stacking program. Lunt 80 sounds brill too. Good luck deciding what next move to make.

And has done in the past :-)

Pretty much...remember Nov/Dec 2010?! :D a lot of snow...but a lot of hilarious incapacity :D

We don't prepare for serious snow because we hardly get any. It would cost millions to maintain the kit that we just may need in the future.

It sounds fantastic Gerry  304 x is remarkable.

Orthoscopic ep are great as long as you cope with or like the very short eye relief, the views are wonderful.

I find the volcano tops friendly at shorter eyerelief's Alan and yes the views are very good. Most importantly the seeing in my new spot seems good, for the local thermals.

I think I read that in "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" so your up there with the big boys

lol! I shouldn't have read the Anthroptic principle- who I might add, (your) Sir Hoyle may have proven....

"so who put them there"...they are there because we are here :)

Fall it is then

when are we going shaun, are you taking your new dob

I been thinkin...

You know what?fall? no way, UH UH, forget it! Everyone should experience this place in the middle of January

I mean , theres braggin rights involved with observing in -30c

i was snowboarding in lake louise in 2011...-35...still had fun tho!

sounds ace gerry, nice stable skys

The base is now in Kentucky!

Prompt service is rewarded by customer loyalty!

Calvin, yes the cold can be a lot of fun, what a great clear day right now.

Saw the sun today after quite a while of cloud. Hope you had a nice session, Gerry :-)

Good solar day, great nebulae night... :)

Hey Shaun, guess what-your right! :)

I know :-) ah well off to work I go.

Thanks Iain, I'll see if I can cobble up a report of the next session, what are your thoughts on objects, characteristics to compare?

Anything really Gerry, it would be good to learn a little more in terms of observation attempts concerning the faint super nova remnant nebulae filament region in Cygnus, consisting of SH2-91 and just perhaps SH2-94 and SH2-96. Over the past couple of seasons, The Little Veil has become a recurring favourite threshold challenge, spurred on not least by  your former accounts. This season I expect when you get the larger dob in operation, more of this challenging region may be determined.  Another aspect that I had been looking forward to are the dark nebulae regions in the Milky Way, consisting of Barnard's E and any further, as you consider, attainable features, perhaps to explore with your TSA120, within the Milky Way cloud. I am slow to get going this season, lots of agendas currently, cannot blame the weather for a change, cant wait to get out there though, eventually.

Funny you mention dark nebula Iain the other night the TSA120 did a fine job up near Tarazed in Aquila on those great dark ones there. This scope is excellent on them, right there with my best dark neb grabber. I need to fine tune the eyepiece selection for them with this scope as these things are fussy.

Dark nebs it is!

The Little Veil... what a good challenge and when the 24" is here I'm sure I'll map some more. Great job for seeing this one recurrently Iain.

Have you spent much time on M24? What a beautiful sight and with some dark surprises about. This is one of my favorite objects.

:) I might be out of cash now myself.... uh oh!

You could always sell the yacht Gerry !!!!

:) lol! all my water and snow toys stay :)

That is a good point. However, I have to set a good example :-)

A boss that actually works and sets a good example? WT F is that?! :) Your employees (and company) are lucky. I hope you gets some good obs in Shaun.

LoL are we that rare a species ? The weekend forecast is looking promising here Gerry so fingers crossed.

I've been looking for a 5mm XO for a couple of years now. There was one around a year ago but it was snapped up by a certain Mr Bacanin. There is a TMB 5mm Supermono available at the moment in the UK but I've owned one of those and the 30 degree AFoV is just TOO small !

Good luck in your XO hunting Gerry

Thanks John, I'm going to need luck... I missed a "new old stock" 5mm a while back.... thankfully I have patience.. at times :)

What a greedy man you are :-)

Yes, a great clear balmy day... and it works :)

That's good to know, did you need to wrap any insulation around it ? ...and the Quark :-)

No, on both accounts :) lol!!

again tonight.....

You are teasing us Gerry. I was out last night and the sight of the streetlights reflecting off the clouds was just beautiful....... ?????????

Good one Stu!

I hope that society can realize the damage that is done from all this energy use and sky wrecking.

I think I did Gerry, But it may have been more of a solar review.... :-)

I am very impressed with the LZ, the differing colours of stars are quite remarkable through it which is something I hadn't noticed in the past. I am very surprised how good it is on Ha and TBH I cant think of anything negative about it.

Awesome Shaun! I figured it would be top notch. I'm seeing a ray in a lunar crater trying to figure out the name.... good seeing so far

Great, I believe you'd been considering this for some time, are you planning on using the same mount as your ED120?

The mount- I'm not sure what mount to use- I wonder if a HEQ5 will work? I was also thinking of a DiskMount...any suggestions welcome Iain!

A question for the forum perhaps Gerry, plenty of time to consider I expect. 

Once again I'll try the Horse Head neb... :) it was too late in the season last year for a good try. The 25mm TV and the 18mm BCO / Hb are the EP's that may work.

Good luck on that one, Jetstream!! The BGOs and TV Plossls are seriously nice EPs and make wonderful additions to any eyepiece kit :-)

Good stuff! My 15mm TVP arrives tomorrow so I share your pleasure (but not in a kinky way! )

sander lucioperca vs sander vitreus, a simple wikipedia search took 5 seconds......maybe give that a try :)

Search Wiki using Latin ? I have enough trouble with English, and if I knew the Latin name I would have known of their existance. Do recognise the name Walleye but cannot recall them refered to as Zander. I see it is the offical fish of Saskatchewan. I'll stick to coho.

Try wild Arctic Char if you havn't already-one of the best tasting fish out there

The UK stalls at -1

lol pig, too true, we are so unprepared for sub zero conditions its unreal

Yes I am embarrassed about it :)