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Very narrow path to view it. Sadly not viewable from the UK as to far north.

Looks like they took the photo with a flash. As we all know who have sold on any scopes that pointing any camera with a flash on to take a photograph down even the best of scopes makes it look like it’s been used as a coal scuttle! Doubt it will have any affect on views, and with carefully cleaning might come up as new with baader cleaning fluid and cloth. 

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.

17 hours ago, saac said:

Those white phone boxes are seriously posh.

 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.

40 minutes ago, Mr Spock said:

I don't see that option on my iPad 

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.  

38 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

I’m still trying to find where to download this more than a short cut but not App thing.

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! 😉🤣😉🤣

2 hours ago, RobertI said:

Is the eBay supplier making them to order or is it a one off? If the former, can you post a link? Thanks. (Sorry OP for diverting thread 🙏)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334896241667?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20221115143056%26meid%3Df166a9d0e39b474580f3e8f9616818e6%26pid%3D101612%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D334896241667%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2%26brand%3DSky-Watcher&_trksid=p4375194.c101612.m4236&_trkparms=parentrq%3A8624e89818a0a8cc93dedbe1fffff68c|pageci%3A1553163b-50ea-11ee-bc18-668ffb26f9c9|iid%3A1|vlpname%3Avlp_homepage

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. 👍🏻

2 minutes ago, Zermelo said:

A thread that's a bit like the big bang - starts with a small seed, blows up, gets messy, could go anywhere...

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

4 hours ago, Mandy D said:

Ah, you've forced me to extract the book from my bookcase, now . |Here is the verbatim quote from the Introducttion ...

"I

"Introduction: the Giant and the Cow

"The origin of the universe is explained in the Younger Edda, a collection of Norse myths compiled around 1220 by the Icelandic magnate Snorri Sturkeson. In the begining, says the Edda, there was nothing at all. 'Earth was not found, nor Heaven above, a Yawning-gap there was, but grass nowhere.' To the north and south of nothing lay regions of frost and fire, Niflheim and Muspelheim. The heat from Muspelheim melted some of the frost from Niflheim, and from the liquid drops there grew a giant, Ymer. What did Ymer eat? Well, there was also a cow, Audhumla. And what did she eat? Well, there was also some salt. And so on."

If you ever visit Iceland, you must do the Golden Circle tour, where the guide will tell you all about the little people. All over Iceland you will see rocks painted with doors and windows where they live. Planning permission can be refused on the grounds that fairies or elves live on the land.

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! 

3 minutes ago, Andy ES said:

Careful, I used the g word this morning and got instantly culled.

 

Oh Zeus! I better be careful then!  

7 minutes ago, Mandy D said:

I thought it was elephants standing on the backs of turtles. Or maybe it was turtles standing on the backs of elephants. I can never remember. I think Weinberg discusses this with a quote from The Younger Edda in the opening sentences of his book, The First Three Minutes. I recall there was also some salt and a cow.

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?   

4 hours ago, malc-c said:

Guys we all know the answer is 42 and the Earth is just an experiment by white mice - what more is there to understand 😆

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

30 minutes ago, saac said:

I totally agree, the "what happened before", "what conditions caused this" has to be the logical conclusion to this. I may well be havering here, somebody who actually knows what they are talking about can correct me !  I think I read that to study the conditions closer to t = 0  would need a particle collider with a diameter equivalent to the orbit of Jupiter or the Moon!  Most likely wrong but it's the sentiment that counts, "we need a bigger boat" and all that  

Here's my parting thought. Isn't it funny that we are not content  (and rightly so) with getting to Andrew's 0.0001 s  of a 13.8 Gy story. I mean, it's utterly amazing that we have been able to do this right? Most of it hard won, with some serious intellectual capital spent, but also elements of luck (the microwave hiss and the Bell Lab engineers). But we are never content, each new advance  always brings more questions. We are constantly asking what is over the other side of that hill  

Jim

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!