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  1. The Quark is amazing! watching a fire storm on the left side of the sun,what a show. Counted 5 big filaments so far. Quark very sensitive to mag.....

    1. Luke

      Luke

      Quark is my best buy ever! Have fun :)

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Thanks Luke!

  2. I love astronomy, from dark shadows to bright, crisp solar!

    1. Pig

      Pig

      Its nice having both Gerry :-)

  3. My seeing is back :)

  4. Lunt 80?

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    2. jabeoo1

      jabeoo1

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

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

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

    4. Luke

      Luke

      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.

  5. The TV 32mm with the 120ED is hitting a sweet spot for low powe white light. The grans are popped all over the place.

  6. Vg solar observing today, up to about 80x mag

  7. Jupiter time again :)

    1. Pig

      Pig

      I had a quick look last night Gerry but The conditions were not that great

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Hows the new SCT? Conditions here were excellent

  8. 12.5mm Docter UWA shipped , excited to try it...

    1. Pig

      Pig

      Congrats Gerry :-)

    2. YKSE

      YKSE

      great! looking forward to your first light :-)

  9. I don't understand light

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    2. Pig

      Pig

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

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

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

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

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

  10. Finally, I can play with my new toys :) the moon is VG,Jupiter soon.

  11. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...

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    2. Pig

      Pig

      I had second thoughts about that comment :-)

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      I'm still laughing Shaun, my old proverb has many meanings I guess! :)!!

    4. Pig

      Pig

      Yes .... I guess it has!!

  12. To Quark or not to Quark....this is the...

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

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

    3. Pig

      Pig

      You could always sell the yacht Gerry !!!!

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

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

  13. very pleased with the 10BCO & 7mm KK ortho on Jupiter, excellent views

    1. Pig

      Pig

      Great news Gerry...You have a liking for BCO's

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Yes, good orthos must have for me :)

    3. YKSE

      YKSE

      Glad to know they're up to jobs :-)

  14. 32mm TV plossl ordered, one step closer :)

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      I need another EP case, hard to sneak in the house though lol!

    3. Pig

      Pig

      You could pretend its for a holiday :)

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

      lol! "Hello, I'm home! I just bought some new luggage"! :)

  15. 10mm BCO just picked up, it looks very good.

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Around 50 deg, not a true ortho in the strictest sense, but it was a design consideration. Others say they work well on DSO- my 18mm does. Faint galaxies will tell the tale I think. I look forward to Jupiter in it too.

    3. Pig

      Pig

      The 10mm Delos delivered the best views I have seen of Juoiter :-)

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

      I'm comparing this little EP to of my 2 best performers,10E and LZ. My 18BCO barlowed at least equals my 8D on the planets... I like orthos though, some don't :)

  16. Filters and a great T2-M48 adapter arrived, pics soon

    1. Pig

      Pig

      More shopping !!!! tut tut :-)

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Ummmm ya! Anyone want to buy a Delos? The collection will soon be slimmed down lol!

    3. YKSE

      YKSE

      looks like there're toys more fun than EPs:-)

  17. The LZ EOFB disappears when barlowed for some reason. Using the VIP at 1.5x eliminates a lot of it and @ 2x its gone. I notice this phenomena is more visible when I zoom in, to higher mag. The VIP barlow also helps the edge issues of the unbarlowed LZ in a fast scope, nothing noticed @ f7. The benefits of this EP far outweigh any of the mentioned issues IMHO. At 1.5x barlow the LZ is a fine 5.9-12 zoom. Just my 2 cents worth. PS- try it at 17.9mm on M42 under dark skies...
  18. Excellent Jupiter last night, very good seeing.Frac and dob gave fine views.

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    2. Qualia

      Qualia

      Great stuff, Gerry. Good luck Shaun. And finger's crossed, Faulksy :-)

    3. Pig

      Pig

      Quite easy to spot at 20x ... now what to do for the rest of the evening

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

      Awesome Shaun, sounds like time to celebrate....wine anyone?! lol! :)

  19. Uh Oh 10mm BCO on its way

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    2. Qualia

      Qualia

      Very nice, Gerry. One of my most used EPs is the 9mm BGO. Think you're going to like it, just watch out that in that freeze you have, your eyeball doesn't stick to the glass :-)

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      lol! good one Rob, just like a kid sticking his tongue on a hockey net post at 30 below :)

    4. faulksy

      faulksy

      thats cold gerry, what do use to heat your optics, heated blanket. look forward to your report gerry as usual

  20. excellent Jupiter atm, some ice haze up there helping tame down its brightness, great sight

    1. Pig

      Pig

      Great news Gerry, still very poor here :-)

  21. 307x on the moon right now,razor like.

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    2. YKSE
    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      The sun,the moon..... kind of mixing them up Shaun :) So great to see things again

    4. cotterless45

      cotterless45

      Superb, really sharp Moon.

  22. Strange object in the sky ATM, almost star like but bigger, blindingly bright-making my ice melt....need help on this one, any ideas...??

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      I think I've got it narrowed down now, I'm thinking its the sun... :) Not sure yet though, havn't seen it for a while

    3. m.tweedy

      m.tweedy

      are there 3 wise men following it

    4. m.tweedy

      m.tweedy

      called Jamie Ant and Grant

  23. I do like the fact you can hold them under running water to clean them To me the real advantage the purging offers is a higher resistance to frosting up in the winter. All 3 of my purged eyepieces are more frost resistant, which is nice for me here. Either inert gas works great for purging- and as far as reactive, unpurged atmosphere (oxygen) filled EP's would most likely corrode things first. In reality this isn't an issue either IMHO
  24. Excuse to use cheaper gas and jack up the price...argon is a common inert gas. Not sure if I believe the seals hold better with argon...
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