ghostdance

Not Telling

A wanderer in the flux of stars...Call me Ishmael...

Interests include a severe addiction to playing records on my Linn LP12, everything from Alkan, The Doors,The Dead, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sibelius, Pharoah Sanders, Terry Riley, Puccini and Hendrix to Zappa. I have a near total blindspot for most AOR stadium bands and saccharine mainstream country ( give me Rosie Flores or Handsome Family anyday)...Bike riding, reading and mixing a mean Daiquiri take up a fair proportion of my time when I'm not slackjawed looking skyward...I'm still learning my way around up there. Feels like home :)


SCOPES: Orion Starblast 6i Intelliscope 6"/F5 reflector. Orion ST80 and Skywatcher Heritage Virtuoso 90mm Mak taking turns mounted on Manfrotto tripod/fluid head. Acquired an EQ2 recently but now heading back to a nice, simple alt-az,
Orion/SW 9×50 & 6×30 RACI, Rigel Quikfinder, Orion rdf etc...still waiting to try my Baader SkySurfer V. Too much darn grey wool up there....

EP's: TeleVue Plossls: full set in 1.25, 8 to 40mm; TeleVue Radian: 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14mm; TeleVue Panoptic 15mm and Nagler 9mm, Televue 8 - 24 Zoom, Celestron Axiom LX 10mm; Vixen LV 4mm; ES Maxvision 16mm & 24mm 68deg; Vixen NLP 20 & 30mm; Orthoscopics: Circle T 7, 9,18mm; BGO 9 & 12.5mm.

BARLOWS: TeleVue Powermate 2.5×; TeleVue 2×; Orion Shorty Plus 2×

ORION STARSHOOT II - bought used and purely for messing about and hopefully getting a few shots of the Moon. I'm no astrophotographer! Heck, I can barely see or sketch :)

FILTERS: Baader UHC-S, OIII & Neodymium; Astronomik UHC-E; Lumicon polariser; full aperture solar-film filters, Baader Solar Continuum, Semi Apo and TeleVue Bandmate Planetary. Plus a couple of colours, somewhere.

BINS: Nikon Prostaff 7s 8x42, Helios Quantum 15x70; Helios Aquila HR 10× 50; Tento 20x60 and 7x35; Canon 8x23; Vixen SG 2.1x42; lovely little pair of Rand Royal View 3× (utterly useless for astro!) Manfrotto 222 trigger grip on 680B monopod and a 'neckpod' thingy.


And too too many floaters to count...

London (East)