JeremyS

Tackling inflation? I thought politics weren’t allowed on here 🤔

The most favoured prediction is by Prof Brad Schaefer which is February to August this year. But this assumes certain similarities to the last eruption in 1946. So noone actually knows.

That’s a decent haul despite the weather 👍🏻

Amazing pics 👍🏻

This sounds a super event. Well done!

Yes, the eruption of T CrB is anticipated sometime this year. Many predict in the next few months. But exactly when is not known, so keep a lookout.

Here’s something I wrote about it: https://britastro.org/section_news_item/get-set-for-the-next-eruption-of-the-recurrent-nova-t-coronae-borealis

32mm Plossl for use in Quark. I do not like long eye relief so got the TV eyeguard extender too.

Baader solar film to make filters for binos 

9 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

@Stu

The Mewlon secret weapon…

If Tak made it, it would cost £150 🤣

…just for the battery

1 hour ago, mikeDnight said:

Are you P.A.Sing it this year Jeremy? It would be good to have a group pic as we perform a scrum around some expensive refractors. Lots of lenses to lick!!!

No, can’t make it Mike.

Send pics 👍🏻

One or two 🫣

3 hours ago, mikeDnight said:

We're special alright! 

The late great planetary observer Richard Baum once wrote "Many look - few observe"!

 

You ought to put that quote in your signature, Mike.

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4 hours ago, Nicola Fletcher said:

My new Mewlon 180C double mounted with an FC100DZ on an AZ-EQ5. I’m still not sure if I like this mount. I’ve started using it in tracking only mode rather than GoTo which is better. The very quick session with the Mewlon was fantastic though - barely first light as the clouds rolled in but M42 and the Pleiades looked fantastic, and the double cluster with the 41mm Panoptic was the best view I’ve ever had of this target. I’m looking forward to getting to know this beautiful scope a lot better!

That is a wonderful set up Nicola 👍🏻

1 hour ago, Sunshine said:

That is one thing, and understandable, but when I worked in a telescope shop in my early twenties I recall the Discovery Channel Canada Walking into my store amd asking for an impressive looking telescope as a background prop for their daily science show. At the time we had a few Meade Starfinder EQ’s on the showroom floor and they really liked them, I sold them the 10” if I recall. A week later while watching the program  i noticed the front was pointing at the ground, right at the ground, the scope was between amd behind both hosts, it looked awful! this was a science program. You can bet I was on the phone the next day calling their offices, they didn’t see what the big deal was.

You worked in a telescope shop??? Sounds like a dream job. 

Sounds like a good day out, JoC. Not visited the planetarium, but it was built by Harry Ford, previously of the Mills Obsy, Dundee.

I would have given the jazz museum a wide berth. 😊

Big place though, Texas 🤣

2 hours ago, Xsubmariner said:

Good steer Jeremy. Now ordered, hope you're getting commission? 👏

I ought to as it’s published on my birthday!

It’s not just the diffraction spikes you have to worry about.

15 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

All viewers will recognise it as being a telescope, that would have been the criterion.  I guess that AI has not yet used a telescope.     🙂

I didn’t know Criterion sold refractors. I always recall their S&T ads for their 6-inch Dynascope. And then there was the Dynamax….

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48 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

While I was out observing last night my wife opened the back door and said excitedly “Eddie come look at this telescope on tv!” it turns out she started a new show on Netflix called Queen Charlotte, the costumes are stunning i should mention, but the telescope is beautiful. In the story the King of England is passionate about astronomy and he has a gorgeous observatory, the telescope is HUGE! and sits onna tripod and not a pier 😂 a massive wood tripod.

https://mangostone.org/the-kings-telescope

You said a beautiful scope…..i was expecting at least an FS 128 or TSA 102!

I’m not much of a zoom guy, but I found the Leica to be a game changer. It’s very expensive, though. Perhaps not so much compared to a collection of EPs

50 minutes ago, Sunshine said:

Interesting, I had no idea you imaged.

Not imaging as such, as in making nice pictures. I carry out photometry on cataclysmic variable stars. So yes, it involves taking lots of images of the stars and extracting photometry from them. I collaborate with amateur and professional astronomers around the world in this endeavour.

Unexpected clear skies

Cracking stuff Dave 👍🏻

They probably just want a gander through your scope 😊