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damnut

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  1. Pete & I went down to Tring Astronomy centre for a cuppa(!). This is his text ..Just swapped round our names so that it reads.! Had a great day out yesterday, visited Tring Astronomy Centre with Pete Sullivan from EMS. Jane and Neil are very friendly just as stated on their website. They were officially closed today, but very kindly opened up specially for us after I phoned them yesterday. We were greeted with a coffee which was very welcome after 120 miles on the road. They have a large and very well stocked showroom with a large variety of scopes and accessories, something to interest everybody. Imager, visual or beginner, they have the largest range of tackle on stock that I have seen in any shop to date. They have a huge range of bins and spotters right from Celestron through Hawkes, up to top of the range Swarovskis. They have just about every type of scope from good quality starter scopes, various ED and apo refractors, a large full range of SCTs and Maks on goto, pretty much all of the very impressive Altair Astro mounts and scopes including a nice 10" carbon fibre truss RC, and an interesting range of eyepieces. They had various dobs including a lovely £3500 truss 18" that had me seriously considering my credit card limit and thinking of folding the back seats of the car down. I purchase a Baader Q-Turret and 22AH Tracer lithium battery pack. They had the turret in stock, but the battery was somewhere in transit via UPS, ETA sometime today, which they would post on to me later. We had a second coffee whilst drooling over all the goodies like kids in a candy store, and then asked their recommendation where we could have lunch. They suggested we leave the car and walk several hundred yards up the road to the Robin Hood Inn, and we'd just come all the way from Robin Hood country Had a great lunch and walked back to find UPS delivering my battery, so that went in the boot. Jane and Neil confirmed that they occupy the very same shop that David Hinds had years ago, before he went online only as Celestron UK. I vaguely remember visiting him there back in the 1980s. Came back up the motorway and decided to go into Nottingham for refreshments in the cafe at Waterstones with some interesting books. Tring Astronomy Centre is well worth a visit however far you have to travel. Maybe this is the equivalent to shoe and bag shopping for the ladies .
  2. That is going to look fantastic Derek. 15 coats of international yacht varnish, 1200 w&dry and that tripod will be Berlebach!
  3. My travelling pair of Bausch & Lomb's won't fit in a picture!....The're too tiny.. @ghostdance, a friend has those Vixen's they are amazing!.(mind you they should be for £230!)
  4. @mikednight Just how did you fold that frac up to fit in your backpack!! @bigsumarian, used the Skytee ii for the recent partial eclipse, hope you did not need to use the rdf on that lovely TAK..
  5. Oh Heck it is cloudy isn't it!!! 150mm Mak, apols for the frac's st120 finder , 152mm
  6. I believe the phrase you are looking for is 'Small but perfectly formed' Ohhh that mount looks just the right height for me Mike...
  7. Just when you think it can't get better. Some lovely scopes there gents. Congrats ..
  8. Thatrs a really fine collection Michael, Congrats.
  9. Thats a great set of Fracs Derek. @seafury, love those long fracs, the 127 is a particularly good instrument.
  10. Two lovely big 152's there. Lowjiber, notice you have a new focusser, could you tell where you found it?
  11. @deweller25, lovely setup. Goodness me these cloudy nights + threads like this + eyepiece cases = Orders for FLO
  12. There are some awesome setups here, the wooden tripod hits the spot too. Nice to see a few skytee's in there.
  13. Chris, I want starlight to point the damn things at
  14. Stu, Hope your partner does not have an SGL ID.
  15. Stu, That's frac'n heaven ...Respect
  16. That's very pretty Alien13. This is my lot apols for the mak ..
  17. Colleagues 14" dob that I am sorting the intelliscope electronics, power and data distribution..
  18. Very nice Niall, that's some protection for the glass too. Slainte!!
  19. That looks almost bomb proof. I have used these folks before for foam :-- http://www.efoam.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKEAjw96aqBRDNhM6MtJfE-wYSJADiMfggGNa1tPYNKuycZkSGvJ5zbJSDsVy562XyS_R4hcmyWxoCowLw_wcB
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