JeremyS

Since when did you get a Seestar, Mike? 🤔

That was the 15th century equivalent of Turn Left at Orion. I think @Peter Drew bought a copy when it was first published.

Uh oh! 🤣

Is that Armagh Obsy, Malcolm?

If the star was moving around the seeing must be poor. Wait for a better night to check collimation

All well here 👍🏻

I fear I might need to do the same

There’s a remote trigger? Phew, I found one in the box👍🏻

I’m thinking of using it to build upper body muscle strength instead of training weights.

I seem to remember someone on here saying these aren’t too shabby, so thought I’d try

Hairy stars sounds like a seeing issue. I use Polaris to check collimation. It’s at a decent altitude and doesn’t move. It shows diffraction rings. Now, on the donut. It should be central when defocussed. But only on stars at the centre of the field. This is key. When tweaking collimation, you need to re-centre Polaris before the next adjustment. More here https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/283204-mewlon-210-finally-arrived/ and https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/354729-best-ever-collimation-video/?p=4548838

I’m not selling 🤣

Yes there are regularly scare stories about whether water might damage fluorite lenses. But that’s what they are: scare, disinformation and not backed up up by facts.

but fewer pairs of Speedos inside the tube

With a setup like that I can understand why his Questar remains on the shelf 😊

We have great posties delivering to us. The problem is we’re lucky if we have 3 deliveries a week. Parts of Cheshire seem to be struggling similarly: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68382286

That’s a very fine scope you have there. It’s often claimed that the FS 102 is a Mars killer, perhaps due to the optical qualities you describe. I’ve not compared my FS 102 side by side with my FC 76DCU ( or FC 100DZ for that matter), but I had some of my best ever views of Mars with the FS 102, during its 2003 perihelic opposition.

More food for my Lovell/Jodrell obsession

Looking at ABS these days, there’s certainly a lot of kit testing going on. I’m surprised they have time to do anything else 🤔

My Leica Zoom was made in Portugal. I was mortified to discover Baader are made in China. I try to avoid EPs from PRC, but sometimes there is no option, like the SVB 3-8 zoom.

Red wine doesn’t count, Malcolm. It’s a health tonic 👍🏻

I don’t know about festoons, but @mikeDnight will be seeing more barges

Apart from general haziness, the Scots seem to be celebrating their 6 nations victory this evening (the “star” is Jupiter)

I can recommend this outfit for cleaning OGs, @mikeDnight

I thought @Stu was working on a need to know basis. Well, I needed to know and thankfully all has new been revealed. And very good it is too 👍🏻