
Edinburger
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I've got the same scope and have only checked horizontally. This has spurred me to go check it again vertically! Cheers! I always make sure the lock screws are tight and assume its all good
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
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One good thing to do with a dob these days is to turn it to point vertical, uncap it and use it as a rain gauge.
I though that the M-G was English - I hadn't realised his sphere of influence includsed the US as well......
Chris
No, no, he's definitely Scottish ;-)
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I'm still too new at this to have an experienced opinion but for a beginner I use Turn Left at Orion to identify achievable targets. Stellarium for telling me where it is in the sky and when. Lastly I use FLO's Clear Outside to tell me its gonna be overcast all night. Probably got that in the wrong order though!
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Yip last clear night was hogmanay and guess what I was doing that night?? Glug, glug! Seriously regretting it now
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Got mine am iron(for a laugh)... Never saw the funny side???
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I'm still new to this so I've not had the chance to make too many errors. Still managed one last week though!
I stayed up all night as the forecast was for clear skies. My targets were the planets Jupiter, Mars and Venus. So at roughly 0230 I checked the sky was clear, it was. I went outside and took the scope out the car and set it up in the street. Jupiter was staring down at me, bright and sharp, so I aligned to scope to Jupiter and went to lock it up and overtightened the Alt adjuster and stripped the thread. Arggg. Session ruined and a wasted night staying up watching junk television!
Fixed now though, tapped it out to M6 and fitted M6 bolt.
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What a coincidence!! I'm just off Stallarium looking at exactly the same thing. Clear skies and no telescope buying please;-)
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Cheers for the heads up bud, some may like to keep their secret knowledge to themselves but to share it with others is enlightened! I had also toyed with idea that there must be somewhere off the lang whang maybe near the old RAF base so to hear about the reservoir helps a lot. I'll probably do a reccy in daylight so I know when to turn off the headlights!
Whiteadder also looks good. I really didn't fancy blindly diving around farm tracks and risk getting shot at by farmer Giles or bumping into Stan Collimore;-)
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Hi,
I've been wondering the same thing since I decided to finally take up the sport a couple of months ago. Still have no answer but here's where I'm at just now...
For the pliedes meteor shower last month I headed up to bonaly (head for the scout camp but turn right before you get there and follow that single track road to the end). Good darkness, I could make out the faint milky way after a while although the field of view was a bit limited.
Secondly I had the idea that somewhere along the east coast might be an idea as there's no street lights out to sea! Turns out maybe I wasn't far out with that as I found out Central Scotland Astronomy Group are holding a star party soon at Yellowcraigs, North Berwick. I did a quick surf on Google earth and found a decent looking car park at a place called ferny ness nr aberlady. I'm assuming you drive but if not there's a bus stop too. If the skies are clear tonight as forecast I might head out for a bit. If so I'll report back
Petition to regulate light pollution
in The Astro Lounge
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Just noticed this and signed.
Where I live the LP is horrendous. Car park lights on all night, local business insecurity lights on all night. Not to forget the fad for 'mood' lighting where businesses think it's a good idea to make their building look better (when everyone apart from us is in their scratcher) by drowning it in purple ruddy lights. Rant over...