Knighty2112

Wow! You remembered all these scopes over the years? Me probably would have forgot a few of them! 🤣🤣🤣

Cloudy? Raining? Sunny? That’s the $64,000 question (or UK £ equivalent!) 😉 Fingers crossed for the latter! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Are you using Skyalign or manual align? Also, use a higher magnitude EP to give a better accuracy of you 3 star alignments, making sure you get them as close to the centre of the EP as possible. Make sure the mount is as level as possible also. Some say this isn’t required, but I find I get much better alignments when the mount is fully levelled.

Nothing posh in Hull alas. All the posh buggers moved out to all the villages around Hull. Just us plebs and proles left!

If you live in my neck of the woods in ‘ull (or if you want the posher name we also go by the longer moniker of Kingston Upon Hull) we had (and still do) have our own telephone exchange, so we had white coloured phone boxes rather than red ones which everybody outside of the Hull area in the UK had. Not quite sure what quirk of history caused this. Here’s two outside the old Lowgate Post Office in centre of said city! Not been past this place for a while, so not sure if they are still there!

I have a C8 SCt and use a white light filter on that OK, so don’t see why not.

Have you got an earlier version of IOS software on your iPasOS? Current version on mine is at 16.7 which is the latest 16 version update which came up yesterday (version 17 available if you fancy the new beta version to try, but might have bugs in still).

Oh, and meant to add you can add a shortcut on your homepage for any website also if you want to rather than having to use a browser all the time.

On my ipad at least near the top of the screen on the web page click on the share button (circled); Then scroll down in the list of options till you see Add to Home Screen option; Then type in the name you want to call your shortcut, then click on the Add button; Shortcut will appear on homescreen; HTH. 😀

‘The Cambridge Double Star Atlas’ might be a good starting point. Plenty to go at in there.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! 😉🤣😉🤣

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Well blow me down! Just found one on sale on fleebay! 👍🏻

Looks good. Wish I had a 3D printer to print off an orange adapter like that for my Starsense module. 😉

I have a heq5 pro and have a synscan wifi dongle plugged into where the hand controller would plug in on the mount to use wifi on the mount. I then use the Synscan Pro app on my ipad to connect up initially to the mount and do an alignment with. After alignment complete I then switch over to using Skysafari Pro 7 (can’t get it to work on SS Pro 6). You can set the display in SS to night so it goes red, but I just generally set the display brightness on SS right down on my ipad. I use the direction controls on SS display if I ned to move the scope slightly to get items in view better. TBH once I’ve done a 3 star alignment on Synscan Pro app, using SS Pro 7 after that to select objects works very well. Doing it this way means you need to have the Synscan Pro app running still for the connection, and SS Pro 7 joins onto that.

Just received my copy this morning. Not had chance to browse it much as yet, but layout looks similar to Sissy Hass book on double stars with lists of stars in each constellation. See image below;

Just ordered a copy. 👍🏻

Well, if nothing else we are learning a bit about mythology on the way!

Just looked it up in a couple of books I have on mythology. Quite an interesting creation myth there involving a first giant, a cow, some ice and salt with a bit of fire thrown in too! I believe a few Nordic countries do a similar thing with painting doors etc all over the place in nature for the wee people!

Oh Zeus! I better be careful then!

Ah, mythologies get plagiarised quite easily so one gets incorporated into another culture/religion/area which can crate a confusing kaleidoscope of turtles, cows and perhaps mice too over the centuries! Not heard about any salt though?

And here’s me thinking it was turtles all the way down that the earth stood on! Would mice and turtles mix well?

I believe currently when we answer some questions (in science on general) we open up a whole heap of new questions that then require further answers for. Maybe one day we will have that giant particle collider to help answer some of these deep questions further. I have heard the theory (not a fan of it myself) that our universe was created by an advanced civilisation, so maybe if we do create that giant particle collider in future we may inadvertently end up creating a universe within a universe with it in any of our future collisions!

Great news. Wish the local council here would do something with the lights that glare in my front garden especially!

Hi Jim. I agree. In all honesty I started off my initial post wrong. As such I don’t have an issue with the big bang theory itself. I am OK with that. It is what happened in the before part which science cannot answer that niggles away at me still.