Marky1973

We’ve all been there with our slippery fingers!  

Ha! Yes indeed - arrived today.....clouds...... ?

So do ! - current forecast suggests two hours clear on Saturday night bewenn 8 and 10!!! and then Sunday morning at 5:00am....11 minutes before sunrise!!! 

spam & chips, spam & egg, spam, spam, spam, spam.....

Baked beans are off!

Might negate the possibility of your dinner not being in the dog Enjoy! 

I was hoping to eat BEFORE sitting down to open the box..... :-)

lols woops

You could say you are actually saving money with the discount you would have got on it off FLO at the moment, so that should soften the blow a little! Fingers crossed anyway!  

That's my current plan.... :-) "Well, look it WAS this price... but there is a sale on....." she loves a bargain!

Whats wrong with ya man?! Get some Ha shades on and do some NB

I'll need to sell a child to pay for the filters! Have an IDAS P2  LPF on the way though so will be out again soon! Not much time tonight in all honesty, so a quick play while I check stuff still works! :-) Although there is some annoying wispy cloud around....

You should have got an electric wheel instead of that manual one .... Cheapskate!  

Yeah, it's your fault for tempting me with it by putting it up for sale! :-)

okay, we're up and running again.....

Best of luck! Im going to give mine two more 900s subs then im off to bed, gotta try and get 6 hours sleep if poss.

Yeah and you! I'm nearly finished  - hopefully in bed by 2!

Hi Rob

Well, I pulled it - 414EX and power supply coming from FLO, scored a manual (yes, I know) filter wheel from Steve on the forum and sourced LRGB Baader filters from Astro Buy and Sell. That will be enough to get me going and saved me a few quid that I will keep aside to get an IDAS LP filter/Ha filter in the next month or so, once I know what I am doing with the kit.

Thanks again for all your help - I may not have gone with your exact advice, but it has been very helpful in knowing where I am heading!

Clear Skies!

Cheers

Mark

Sounds like a plan to me! Im just wondering why you chose an additional PSU - and chose not to run it off a bench supply? (all my stuff is powered by one big phat PSU).

As long as you get the Ha by May/June you wont miss much. But Cygnus should be your first stop when you do get one, its an easy place to get lost in for a few months. But for your first hit, M13 is a good choice - it will give you a chance to work on your star handling & focus, and a chance to practice layer masking (for the core).

Hi Rob

Do you mean like the one's Maplin do - or on the FLO site (Although that is not available at the moment)? Power is one of the things next on my list but, again, something I need to look into before I start trying various options. With your bench supply, can you connect several things to one unit- the ones I have seen only have one pair of binding posts. BUt, presuming you have enough AMPs I guess you can run several items if you can connect them all.

Yeah, hope to get Ha sorted in the next month or two, and was looking at M13 as a possible target to cut my teeth on yesterday when playing around with FOV calculators... so at least I am on the right wavelength with something.

How do you chose your targets? Do you have a "guide" or is it just years of experience, looking up and getting used to the night sky?

Cheers

Mark