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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 :)

Its nice having both Gerry :-)

The Sun = awesome :D

Yes! - when did it reappear?

I just got mine a few posts ago...

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 :-)

SLVs are no reason to cry

That's the problem... I may cry if they outperform some of my other EP's lol!

LoL I don't think you will be disappointed with them Gerry.. Very good eyepieces

Glad you both got a little solar in today .-)

Thanks Rob, the set up is now working well. That huge prom looked very interesting, the shape evolving before the eyes. I love Ha :)

I am glad to be sat down whist viewing. Knock me over that active region is screaming, so bright! The suns surface looks like its ripping itself apart. No wonder the northern lights are due.

The VX10, well collimated and cooled. The excellent seeing allowed the Doc to excel. The color richness with this EP rivaled refractor views....

Oh yes I forgot you had the Doc.. You enjoying it ?

Immensely. Good on solar too, but its too hvy really.

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

Hows the new SCT? Conditions here were excellent

Nice one Gerry....we have snow here so no observing for me :-)

Looking forward to your FL

A friend of mine in Princetown was just telling me about your recent ice storms! Sounds nuts!!

I hope you have some pics to show you in action

Nice :)

'Till the next time! lol!

was it the same issue bigmakstu had with his?

I believe so, this is a fairly common issue. Leica wants the cap stuck good as its for fieldscopes.

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!!

Quiet in Ontario at present then. Don't know if it was on your side but there was a program showing how you managed the odd little snow fall over there.

Nice day today, warm and great seeing. Yes the "Ice box of the nation" is right across the crick and we usually manage the snow. Frost last year was over 8' deep, many water lines froze including mine....

Nice one Gerry ..... I guess you will have to try a few and let us know how it performs on each of them :-)

Ummm, I meant the Lumi UHC... not a good sign I mixed them up already :)

:-)

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.

should be better than close, is this with your new coli kit ? whats it like

how much did it all cost you in the end, did you use a cheshire first to confirm and did it make any difference ?. cheers gerry

It cost me about 1/4 the cost of a SIPS :) Not sure about the difference,but during those brief moments of great seeing I'll know the scope is right on!

Nice one Gerry.

I have just returned from Italy, some wonderful thunderstorms :-)

Italy again huh! Well I changed my mind on the car...I just watched a 'Vette blow the Ferrari away on you tube :)!

LoL ...F1 is slightly different :-)