RT65CB-SWL

Another alt-az mount incoming... Thank you @heliumstar

As of 6:52 this morning, I am now a great-uncle  ...makes me feel even older! 

FLO... Please stop teasing me with your 'latest offers' from TeleVue & Lunt. ?

For the last few years, I have been referring my Vixen mount a GP/DX, only to find out today it is purely the GP.

Fruit flies like banana's... Time flies like an arrow... An arrow stops play at the Oval...

It's just not cricket! 

Had my 'modded' ETX backplate 're-modded' (+/- 24hours) to accept my SCT accessories.

More to follow in the DIY Astronomer section at a later date when it has had firstlight & tested etc.

Happy Diwali 2017

Hi Frank,

I have a Meade heavy duty field tripod with 2inch steel legs. I think from an LX200. Would it be of use to you?

Clear skies,

Philip

I do love these Explore Scientific filter boxes...

I have just noticed I have been a member of SGL for ten years.  

Is it me or are car park operators trying to make extra money in these difficult times. 

I have received two notifications for breaching [their] T&C's. 

Please don't mention POPLA, as  they have rejected both appeals that I have submitted.

Admins... feel free to remove if it is not suitable content.

Just a reminder for those of you that are none USA residents / USA military personnel / Green Card hoders etc...

Do not forget your ESTA...

No ESTA... No admission... No solar eclipse.

Get it before you go... Not at the airport.

Photos of my ETX-105 with SCT accessories... 

Reading Astronomical Society have an open day today, (23rd Feb), from 1300-1700.

Astro Distro 1.0.2 now installed on my laptop!

Diversion on motorway en-route to work - followed diversion signs then no more - Sat-Nav on phone 'directing' me through roads that are closed due to flooding!

Everytime I see a photo of a 3D printer; it reminds me of a Meccano set!

Following on from my update of 22.08.2014 on vacuum cleaners and hair-driers, I see that toasters are next... crumbs! followed by kettles and lawn-mowers!

Half-way through 2014... and it's my birthday... and another year older.

Happy New Year! (en) / Уестита Нова Година! (bg)

I didn't realise that I could 'post' and 'reply' to topics via Knoppix!

Is it me, but does Lenny147 spend more time underground than on top of it? - BTW if you are reading this Lenny147, no offence, you do great photos in the 'most' unusual of places!

Just read in National Geographic, that if the Earth was a black hole, it would be 0.7inch!

Just seen on BNR, (Radio Bulgaria), that 2015 has become "Year of Light" declared on the initiative of UNESCO & UN for International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies - does this mean more light pollution?

Merry/Happy Christmas (en) - Весела/Уестита Коледа (bg)