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  1. Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll hold off for the 9x50 RACI. It'll be my next purchase anyway so it'll be Christmas or earlier, and my Rigel and 9x50 are perfectly fine for now. I realised also that the views through finders in my books are always illustrated using a 9x50, so it makes sense to not step down as it'd only confuse me ;-)
  2. At the moment I'm using the stock 9x50 straight through finder on my 250px. I've been wanting to upgrade to the 9x50 RACI, but yesterday I came across these Seben 6x30 RA finders for £13.99 (!!!!) brand new from Seben themselves. Has anyone got any experience of these? Would a 6x30 RA be better to use than a 9x50 straight through? Also, forgive my ignorance, but does an RA finder always show a corrected image or would it be identified as RACI rather than RA?
  3. Thanks Daz, ideally we could book a glamping pod for a few nights - I've emailed FLO to see how we go about this. If that isn't an option, it'll probably have to be the car as my wife wouldn't survive a night in a tent never mind a few.
  4. Thanks Michael, I wasn't aware of the glamping pods and beach huts that are available for hire, but I'd guess we'd be more or less on our own and away from the main field(s) if we booked one of those? It's definitely a better option than the car, regardless. Would that have to be booked through Lucksall direct?
  5. Anyone know if there would be an issue if me and the missus came down and slept in the car? We have a thing that extends the back seat of the car to make it in to a bed, and my missus wouldn't be able to sleep in a tent at that time of year due to her health. Needless to say, we would be taking all the normal precautions re stray light, not running the engine late at night, etc.
  6. Thanks for the info both of you. Great that you both pointed out the same thing! Mrbloke...do you mean find a clear patch of sky outside my home, then adjust the light pollution settings on Stellarium until it matches my actual view of the sky? That sounds like good advice...now if only we had a clear patch of sky right now lol. Thanks again
  7. This is how it shows at the moment using 12.5x on the Ocular view. Clearly I am using the software wrong or reading something wrong as that is clearly visible. What settings would I need to use to give me a true representation of what would be seen in a clear sky?
  8. Very interesting post and it has definitely opened my eyes somewhat. How accurate is Stellarium in showing the relative brightness of objects in the sky? I was messing around with the Ocular view on it last night while M31 was directly in the Western sky, and it needed only x37.5 mag on the Ocular view to clearly make out the shape of the galaxy and x75 showed a fair amount of detail, which got me quite excited. I realise now that this is not the case, so should Stellarium only be used as a guide to the positions of objects in the sky? Or was I somehow reading the Ocular view wrongly?
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