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  1. I love solar

    1. Luke

      Luke

      The Sun = awesome :D

  2. Heavy rain,floods

    1. cotterless45

      cotterless45

      Forecast 2 consecutive clear nights here, hurrah !

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Enjoy Nick!

  3. zanderfest!!

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

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

    3. ronin

      ronin

      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.

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

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

  4. leica zom has shipped...:)

  5. Another great solar day,very good seeing

    1. Pig

      Pig

      It certainly has been a great day Gerry :-)

  6. 5 hours of solar today :)

    1. ronin

      ronin

      Did you use a sun screen???

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Believe me,I did.Great day,about 21c,nice breeze & lots of sunspots out to see

  7. Zoom Zoom Zoom!

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Well I'm going to join the Leica club :) be great to dial in the exit pupil on the galaxies with a quick turn

    3. Mike73

      Mike73

      That was exactly my thinking Gerry, match the Sb/exit pupil/mag......I'II send you a PM ;)

    4. YKSE
  8. A beautiful,huge Aurora killed my dark sky spot tonight

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      I need a good camera for these times.i would have forgot about the scope and taken some pics to send...Crazy Northern lights this year!

    3. YKSE

      YKSE

      I'd love to have my own pic of aurora as my profile

    4. jabeoo1

      jabeoo1

      Sounds horrible. I feel for you ;)

  9. Baader/Zeiss prism arrived,we will see if it can wake up the Raptor

  10. Great night, great views,more galaxies

  11. Baader/Zeiss prism diagonal coming

  12. Excellent sky coming and I'm going out.. :-)

  13. Great,great sky-galaxies everywhere!

  14. Sunspots galore!

  15. Brilliant solar conditions right now

    1. faulksy

      faulksy

      same here gerry beautiful shame about the moon

    2. Qualia

      Qualia

      Great stuff, chaps.

  16. Waiting for the Blood Moon...

    1. Pig

      Pig

      I saw it this morning absolutely huge

    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Awesome Shaun....3 more minutes to wait!

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      The moon is red!

  17. Great sun obs again :-)

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      I hope the sky clears for you,A+ seeing here right now.Playing with my EP's/filters

    3. Pig

      Pig

      LoL :) happy days

    4. Qualia

      Qualia

      Hope you get another sunny day this morning, Jetstream.

  18. Tak orthos here now,it sure looks good

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    2. faulksy

      faulksy

      hi gerry, look foward to your first light reports and hope i dont have to sell my bgo,s. lol

    3. faulksy

      faulksy

      weres the pcs as well

    4. jetstream

      jetstream

      my camera is broke,spent all money on optics!lol!

  19. Ordered a Tak ortho got a blizzard...

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    2. Pig

      Pig

      And has done in the past :-)

    3. emadmoussa

      emadmoussa

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

    4. Naemeth

      Naemeth

      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.

  20. Tak 12.5mm ortho on the way for solar,DSO :-)

    1. YKSE

      YKSE

      :)- can't wait for first light report!

    2. faulksy

      faulksy

      i have the bgo and its very good love them

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      Awesome Mike,can't wait to try it out on the sun

  21. great solar day

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    2. Pig

      Pig

      What set up do you have Gerry ?

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      Stellarvue 90mm Raptor/Baader wedge,ND 3(.1),Solar Cont,Baader 1.25' Polarizer filter.The 16mm Nagler is THE one for this setup so far in low range

    4. Pig

      Pig

      Thank you Gerry

  22. Another great Jupiter night,the polarizer worked very well at dusk

  23. Solar pores everywhere,nests and clusters of them,filaments...:-)

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    2. GreatAttractor

      GreatAttractor

      As it happens, I was powering up to 300x on the Sun yestarday with Mak 180, and actually had a good crisp view for a few moments.

    3. jetstream

      jetstream

      Hey Pig a solar storm huh!LOL!300x on the sun must be awesome!

    4. Pig

      Pig

      Ha Ha :-) couldn't resist that one...sorry

  24. Another great solar day....lots of activity

  25. good solar today,great night on Jupiter :-)

    1. Qualia

      Qualia

      Sounds great, Jetstream. Just woken, so after coffee will have a peek at our spotty friend :-)

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