Floater

Mirror mirror, who’s the cleanest of them all? 👍

Hey, boss, welcome. Hope you have lots of fun with your retirement hobby. 🙂 I’m at a similar latitude … but in a different climate, thankfully. 🥶

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun and success with the AP. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun … and as you have found already even the research can be interesting and fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun with your kit. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

See attached.

This is becoming unnecessarily confused, @Ouroboros, so here is a pic of the latest calendar.

I got a calendar but can’t remember if it was with this month’s issue or last month. It’s an age thing … 🤔

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun with the forum. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun and success with the AP. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun and success with the AP. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun … and clear skies. 🙂

To be clear, Tom, you are right: some people just don’t get on with binoviewers. One highly respected and venerable SGL member has tried more than once to live with them and avers that he just can’t. (No names no pack drill, etc.) Not sure just how cheap you contemplated but my Williams Optics binos are not at the top end and not at the bottom, either. You’ll know the phrase, I’m sure - you need to just suck it and see … Have a look around on the used market? Most importantly, have fun on the learning curve. 🙂

Y’see there’s a disconnect here (as I believe one can say these days) between ‘whether I should consider some of the cheaper options’ and ‘my 150mm Ha solar telescope’. 🤔 (All due respect to both and, especially, Peter. 🙂) First, welcome to SGL Tom(?), I hope you have lots of fun with the forum. Second, binoviewing will never be a bad thing. ‘Reaching focus’ is almost the key to everything solar in my experience and sometimes it’s a hairbreadth that makes all the difference. The combination of scope, binos, eyepieces and all the rest of the stuff that we mess around with makes it nigh impossible to say ‘do this’ or ‘do that’. And, frustrating as it may be, that’s all part of the fun(!?). More experienced members will be able to give you better guidance, I’m sure, but I have a choice of Barlow nosepieces depending on which scope I’m using - for white light or Ha - and still faff around trying this and that on different sessions! My best advice is just enjoy. You won’t go far wrong with two eyes on the goal … 😎 p.s. I have used a Quark and I think it’s a wonderful piece of kit.

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂 I guess you’ll have more chances than me to use the Lunt over the next few months - the Sun can barely be seen above the trees in my garden in winter here. 😑

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun now you’re back on the journey. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun with your rekindled interest. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun and success with the AP. 🙂

I have only the 24mm of the Panoptics and it is, undoubtedly, a wonderful eyepiece. Enjoy. And, of course, never look back - look through it. 🙂