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  1. It has so much warmth, but the paper, you can forget!
  2. It's been 'axed' according to the Sun! https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6295694/bbc-bosses-quietly-axe-stargazing-live-with-prof-brian-cox-and-dara-o-briain/
  3. Anything here that might help http://connector.pinouts.ru/6_pin_RJ12_6P6C_male/
  4. Probably reached the optical limits of the scope or its fragility, and not forgetting the seeing conditions. Even my scope is limited by the seeing conditions, but when its not so good, I back off the power, or even go back inside.
  5. If you still have the Bresser, would your eldest not be blown away, as you were, from your own recollection. I like the first two responses to this thread. The 150P Skyliner Dobsonian, or better still the 200P Skyliner will really blow your socks off when looking at the Moon. Jupiter will be about the size of a small pea, but when conditions allow, the rings will be visible as are Jupiter's moon shadows, when a transit occurs?
  6. I gave up with the old laptop, still in cupboard, and Mrs has her new Chromebook, but there's every possibility I'll tinker further with the old Acer. Next, the Samsung EVO 850 SSD is a possible 'upgrade' for my old W7 Intel Core Q8300 system. Not purchased yet, but needing the 1TB option, so I can clone the existing 1TB HDD. It's probably the cheapest upgrade over buying a 2019 PC. Its just to run FSX!
  7. Thats a possibility. Perhaps the massive discount is a way of moving older stock, and at the end of the day, if they work and the user is happy, why not.
  8. Thats a massive discount so I went and had a look myself at a Bresser 40mm, but when you added your link, something rang my bell, as these two items are completely different externally? Both links appear to depict a 40mm Bresser Plössl. https://www.optical-systems.co.uk/en/Astronomy/Telescope-accessories/Eyepieces/BRESSER-40mm-Eyepiece-60-5-Elements-50-8mm-2.html https://www.telescopehouse.com/bresser-pl-40mm-60-2-00-inch.html
  9. I tried TeleView's Delos range for the wider views, but found them no better than my Starguiders with respect to the size and details of the image I was viewing. The view itself was wider, but what I was looking at looked the same. Well in fact no! some targets, the Moon, looks smaller in such a vast sea of space. I therefore decided that my Starguiders were as good as it's going to get, so I'm staying with the 60° afov format, which suits my viewing requirement. My one and only two inch fitting EP the 32mm Panaview works well, as a finder or just as a wide field, scanning the heavens. Your 8mm BST is a good replacement for the supplied 10mm , and the 25m works just fine, but was not wide enough for me on one occasion when trying to take in M31 from a darker sky, so bought the Panaview for that reason. A 12mm BST is a very good eyepiece, matching the scopes ( Skyliner 200P) focal ratio if 2x Barlowed giving 200x power, which the scope is more than capable of producing, and if just used as a 12mm, the image detail, although smaller, is sharper, given the right conditions. I've even contemplated buying another 12mm BST and permanently fitting a 2x Barlow cell to the eyepiece, giving me the BST 6mm I so desire ( they don't make one to be honest but the 6mm would 'complete' my personal set ). Calculate/measure the entry pupil for your eye, and multiply by the focal ratio to find a ball park figure for your wide field eyepiece. Given mine rounded up is 5, then I should look at something around the 30mm focal length for a wide field EP, the 32mm Panaview is what I have. Go too long in the focal length with a reflector and you'll see things that you shouldn't normally see like floaters and the scopes spider assembly?
  10. I've tried the TeleVue Delos, given their background and the many positive reports they get, but found them to be no better visually for my needs. True, to some, TeleVue are better, defo more expensive and with their 20mm eye relief, and their Dioptrx system, they're still a good eyepiece, but for me the benefits might have been more observable on a much faster scope? I've even decided that after testing several Plössl's and ortho's I really don't need my existing Plössl's anymore in favour of just keeping the Starguiders. The BST's won't favour everyone, but a lot of users have the same or similar combination of f/6 skyliner and a few Starguider EP's. I know the Starguiders were not created specifically for my scope, but the combination does work very well, and their comfortable too. Like you said "I don't think the BSTs would ever be a bad choice" if anyone is considering the same/similar setup.
  11. Thankyou . Nothing changed here since my last text, but I've noted already that the embedded link has been updated with both http text's now showing https. I copy pasted the whole link again, but still its showing my original 00Hrs image rather than that of 1400 Hrs today! You're probably aware of this already! Grant, Unless I'm wrong, I'm expecting to see the current conditions just by looking at the avatar in my signature, without actually clicking on the avatar itself.
  12. IndianAstroboy, Hello and welcome . I have the same telescope and for my needs the eyepieces in my signature all work very well on this scope. The BST Starguiders are my favourites, they don't provide a 6mm but I wanted a 6mm to match the scopes focal ratio f/6, so went for the William Optics 6mm SPL. In general, from my experience, any 8mm and a 12mm eyepiece would give good results on this scope, providing your comfortable yourself with the eyepiece in question, and you dont need to spend a fortune to get good results from a Skyliner, and for wider field's of view,( possibly in two inch format) My choice was the Skywatcher Panaview 32mm.
  13. Copied the whole link including brackets?..added the 's' to make 'https:'
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