JeremyS

I could never quite understand the title. Surely it should have been Starlit Nights? The subtitle could be something like Adventures of a star lover. Gazing just sounds too ineffectual and distracted.

Either that or he’s whistling loudly while he sneaks a white Vixen tube in past his wife 🤔

Precisely

I don’t like the term stargazer.

Nice job @Stu 👍🏻 All you need now is an engine and some orange paint and you’ll soon be spinning your way down Dorset lanes.

I’m going to need to go through counselling once again before I answer this q. Just going to lie down in a darkened room for a while

I usually use my C9.25 on an AZEQ6 in Az mode

Gotta be 76. Bit closer to 100. Then the only decision is DCU or DS 😊

The only regret I have is not discovering Ethos eyepieces earlier in life. Lovely wide fields, allowing plenty of drift time in undriven scopes. They are also superb optically. I’m from the generation that thought fewer elements were better, especially for high power work. Many modern eyepieces with their improved coatings overcome this past worry. The Ethos range represents the pinnacle.

I have zero regrets with my C9.25. Brilliant scope 👍🏻

Perfect! 👍🏻

@John said that for years, but succumbed in the end 👍🏻

M180 or 210, Nicola? Ultimately, we will need photographic evidence, of course 😊

Following that trend you should invest in an FS 60Q before Tak stops making them, David. 😊

I’ve gone all dizzy looking at these refractors. Time to contribute some pics of my own see what I did there? 🤣🤣🤣

Until the inevitable happens 🤔

I somehow missed this thread. Best title for a thread in ages, @Sunshine Anyway, I’d like to see someone try licking a Newton mirror…..it’s refractors all the way 👍🏻

I like the concept of night and day mounts, Nigella. All sounds very chic 🤣

I thought you’d been conspicuous by your absence on this vitally important thread, Alan 🤔

I had a weird dream the other night that I was in the obsy with my C11 and my wife came in said “that squatty black tube looks awful, why don’t you replace with a sleek white Takahashi FS 152?” 🤔

Great report and lovely looking scope 👍🏻

I think I might replace my observing cap with the cloth affair the foundary worker is wearing 👍🏻

Does anyone in Cheshire like Taks that much? 🤔

Very nice Dave. Have you selected your first light target?