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20 hours ago, Chaz2b said:
Blimey it’s the Time Tunnel again!
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Wow, I hadn't thought about that TV series since I watched my last episode during the initial run when I was age 10.
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4 hours ago, josefk said:
I could have staged it with the album cover if i were a quicker thinker (and a bit sad). "There is no dark side of the moon..."
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"...as a matter of fact, it's all dark."
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15 hours ago, johnbaz said:
A few more of mine that I don't think i've posted in this thread.
Another old Russian Komz 8x30..
Swift Trilyte 8x40.
Yashika 8x40.
Old Voightlander that a friend gave me free!, They're very nice for such an old binocular!
Bushnell Birding 10x42.
Pentax zoom bins..
(Swift) Audubon mk2 8.5x44.
A little Nikon 9x25..
Tecnar 10x50, When these arrived I couldn't look through them as the collimation was so bad!, I got fed up of seeing them in the house and was on my way to stick them in the bin and noticed that one of the objective bells was on really skewed!, Someone had removed it for some reason and cross threaded It! It took me ages to get it to start in the correct way but got it eventually and collimation came back ok!
Zeiss Dekarem 10x50 Q1, I found these local through facebook, They were only a tenner!!
Opticron Polarex 8x40.
Simmons 7x42.
Barr & Stroud 8x30.
Russian 7x50.
Military Kershaw bins with graticles, They have the broadarrow stamped on them, Left side is lovely and clear, Right side is full of specks of paint!
Cheapo Chinese low mag that needs very little focussing, I initially thought they were the focus free type but they're individual focus!
Tecnar 12x50, Love these, Plus, They have a really beautiful 'Olde worlde' smell to them!!
Tasco 7-15x35 in very nice 'looked after' condition. I dislike zoom bins though and don't know why I buy them! ☺️
Dowling & Rowe focus free and Tasco, Both armoured.
Swallow 15x80 with the normal sized Nikon Monarch 8x42 in front for a size comparison.
I have a few more but never got around to taking pics, Got a really nice Opticron 8x40 from a friend at 'Mates rates'!!John 🙂
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Have a wide-angle lens for a full family portrait?
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15 hours ago, johnbaz said:
I bought a nice Opticron spotting scope through ebay and was really sad at how they arrived 😪
Was told it was balsamic failure or something like that, I had to send them back for a refund, It cost me around £20 to send them insured which I didn't get back from the seller so I really got a part refund!
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The seller should certainly have disclosed this issue beforehand. I'd say you're entitled to a full refund.
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Hmm, happy with your 4-inch, and you already have a 5-inch aperture scope, so if the targets you enjoy are best seen with the refractor-type view, then move up to the 6-inch class.
Of course, a suitable mount for such a large scope must also enter the equation, here.
If the targets you're searching for are leaning toward deep-sky, an 8 or 10-inch newt will open new vistas, relatively inexpensively.
Good luck.
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Overall, they make for a decent set at the price. My 2.3mm arrived with a tremendous amount of dust between the lenses, and I really must disassemble it one of these days for a cleaning.
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On 17/09/2023 at 10:45, CyGuy said:
My Celestron 25x100 binoculars
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Stout glass.
The tripod appears a bit overmatched, no?
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2 hours ago, Merkhet said:
Window shopping for binoculars.
Can anybody tell me if the APM ED APO MAGNESIUM SERIES 16x70 binoculars have threads for filters? Or any other means of fitting eyepiece filters?
I remember reading a few years back that some makes of binoculars had thread just below the rubber eyecups for filters.
Thank you.
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A query sent to APM should get a response, no?
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7 hours ago, Alan White said:
Postie has been with a delivery from the classifieds, thanks Tim @Franklin for this next Vixen wonder 😁
7x50 ultimas, the build is sublime.
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Nice find!
I have the Celestron-branded 10x50 & Swift-branded 8x44 version of these. Very good glasses for their era.
I'm sure you will love them.
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8 hours ago, saac said:
Wow that is a lovely board, there is a lot of history on that; did the wheels come coned like that or is that from use? I started skating pretty much in the late to mid 70s when skateboarding really took off here. Of course no internet back then so it was impossible to find out about the wider skateboarding scene and culture, especially if you lived outside the main cities. As kids, we used our boards for getting about town, oh and falling off, which we did a lot
We didn't do tricks, to be honest we never really knew tricks were a thing beyond tic tacking a 360 and jumping kerbs - certainly no ollies. Round about the early 80s following a very long and hard fought campaign by a very special and passionate man, architect Ian Urquhart , we got our first full blown American style skatepark. It was a first for both Scotland and for the UK and would soon make a name for itself on the world skating scene. The Skatepark at Livingston (central belt of Scotland) affectionately known as Livi gained a reputation as a bit of a special place and even attracted a young Tony Hawk to visit and ride in the early 90s. It has gone through both decline and a recent resurgence and now there is a campaign to grant it listed building status, support again coming from key luminaries like Tony Hawk.
Anyway back to Kryptonics, as an 11 year old kid growing up in the central belt of Scotland the very name just imbued those wheels with special powers. That they came from America just added to their authenticity and potency, I was the envy of my pals and I milked it for all it was worth
I got back on a board a few years past; like riding a bike you don't forget the balance of it. To be honest though I was conscious of the effects of falling on my now older and heavier frame so I tried long boarding and wow I was addicted all over again. Lockdown gave me the excuse to really invest some time on the board and I am so grateful for that, it is hard to explain but when I'm on the board it is like a zen like transformation. I guess you will get that experience when you are on your motorbike riding in the desert. Your focus is on one thing only, the moment, it is a brilliant feeling doing big long lazy carving turns and pushing faster than it is really sensible to do! What we do lack here is suitable roads/pathways to skate. I occasionally will push it and skate on the public highway (very quiet neighborhood roads) or take a trip to Dundee or one of our nearby coastal towns to ride on the paved promenades. I have a family member who lives out in San Francisco and if I ever get round to visiting my board will be the first thing that goes into my luggage, I may even by it a seperate seat ticket
ps - tx for sharing the photos of your board - made my day. You need to get it hung on the wall , to remind you of what it was like, and you never know maybe again
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a34617191/livingston-skate-park/
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The wheels came that way.
Getting off-topic but...
We started skateboarding mid-60s when the best available wheels were clay. By the late 60s I was riding dirt bikes and forgot about skating till I was in the Army stationed in Germany. Picked up a magazine at the PX I'd never seen before: "Skateboarder". Next thing you know I'd mail-ordered a skateboard. Two fellow Californians had skateboards, so when mine arrived we started terrorizing Bad Kreuznach. First photo is me at our Kaserne some weekend, spring 1978. I discharged that summer.
Someone shot this photo of me at a skatepark just about two years later. That is my first Kryptonics board, no wood-all synthetic, indestructable.
I stopped skating at age 24. I was married by then, and the falls were beginning to hurt more than I was willing to endure any longer. Falling off two wheels onto dirt is much "better". 😄
Great news on your skatepark.
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On 18/08/2023 at 10:36, saac said:
As the great Jay Adams said, "you didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding"
Yep, Kryptonites (Kryptonics), back in the day they were the cool of cool. My first proper skateboard was bought second-hand, a Benjy Board and it came with a set of Red Kryptonites, a set of Green Kryptonites and a set of YoYos. I was in heaven for the best part of 77. You get a pretty price for a decent Benjy board now
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Your post prompted me to dig around in the attic....
Kryptonics also made boards, and this was my second by them. A "carving" board, which worked better at skate parks for me, rather than a "kick-flip" type, which were better for street skating.
Kryptonics wheels, I think the green CX-66 were the hardest compound they offered at the time.
Tracker trucks:
This was my last board before I stopped skating, probably around 1981.
I dare not set foot on it today!
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From my experience, it seems there's none left now.
I've never had much luck with the Perseids, even from a dark desert site. One year out there, no Moon, I stayed up the entire night, counting only 26, total.
My suburban backyard Saturday night was a total humbug, I gave up quite early. Think I'll skip them from now on.
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1 hour ago, saac said:
Not your usual astro kit but I was getting so fed up with my various astro related toys scattered around the house, camera battery chargers or usb cables never at hand when needed. So a trip to ScrewFix and here's the solution, quite happy with it ; slowly filling it up but now at least I will know what room I should be looking in
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Fits nicely into the space provided. Do you think it's big enough?
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I had oculars on a used pair which looked like the OP's, and it turned out to be internal grease had somehow migrated there. After cleaning they were perfect.
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Parallax makes 10.3" rings, very close to your size. A bit of felt should make them perfect.
Good luck.
http://www.parallaxinstruments.com/ringprice.html#ringprice
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Clever boy!
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I'm not a Steiner historian, but they appear to be a predecessor to the Military/Marine line which I first handled in the mid-90s.
Value? Unknown.
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When I owned my FS-128 I found a Losmandy GM-8 would support it for visual, however, any breeze was detrimental to stability. I don't see how a Vixen GP (which I also own, though sadly, not a 128 any longer) would prove adequate.
Good luck.
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On 27/07/2023 at 15:31, Swoop1 said:
Not delivered but collected after an Astro Buy and Sell find. RVO Horizon 72ED plus a box of accessories including a flattener, a 2" diagonal, a 1.25" diagonal, a 2" Barlow, a 1.25" Barlow, a mobile phone holder, an extension tube, a Cannon T ring, Polarizing filter, Light Pollution filter and various EP's.
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Quite a package. Looks like somebody giving up.
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On 28/07/2023 at 21:10, Grump Martian said:
Since being a child I can remember seeing pictures of space art. I was taken to the Moon seeing pictures of it's jagged mountainous surface. Here is a lovely impression of Saturn seen from Titan. From the 1940's. Why do we need space probes to go there? Just live off his imagination. Lol
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Here are a couple of items I recommend for Bonestell fans:
Published 2001
DVD more recent
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On 29/07/2023 at 04:16, Swoop1 said:
I had a really great Roger Dean book which I leafed through on an almost weekly basis when I was a teenager.
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Was it his "Views" book? I bought this mid-70s, had it for many years and not sure how it came to be missing from my collection (can't blame my wife!).
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On 27/07/2023 at 10:23, Mr Spock said:
So, the last time I was outside I had an hour and a half on the moon looking at Aristarchus and Gassendi. That was it more or less for June. I have had nothing in July. Nothing but cloud every single night.
Oh look, we have dark skies again, well, light grey for here. Sadly all I will see of it is more cloud. Is this just becoming a pointless hobby and we are all better off doing something less frustrating?
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Assuming you love observing, don't give up and quit, just find another hobby to enjoy when conditions are not favorable.
I also ride motorcycles (hobby #1 since age 12), shoot guns, shoot photos with SLR cameras, read books.
Any number of things in life to be passionate about.
Good luck!
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How many have you got?
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I refuse to participate in this thread 😝
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There was a time when I wanted one of these, particularly after Uncle Al invited me to have a look through one at a star party where he was debuting his then-new 100° eyepieces. Wow!
I never got one and the desire for it has waned since then. Never say never, but my thinking is that it won't happen.
Good luck!
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We didn't do tricks, to be honest we never really knew tricks were a thing beyond tic tacking a 360 and jumping kerbs - certainly no ollies. Round about the early 80s following a very long and hard fought campaign by a very special and passionate man, architect Ian Urquhart , we got our first full blown American style skatepark. It was a first for both Scotland and for the UK and would soon make a name for itself on the world skating scene. The Skatepark at Livingston (central belt of Scotland) affectionately known as Livi gained a reputation as a bit of a special place and even attracted a young Tony Hawk to visit and ride in the early 90s. It has gone through both decline and a recent resurgence and now there is a campaign to grant it listed building status, support again coming from key luminaries like Tony Hawk. 
Interesting Italian review and article website
in Discussions - Scopes / Whole setups
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Thanks for sharing, much to be digested, here.
I do find the single-spaced type a bit tedious, however.
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