Alan White

Nice that observing has been a rekindled pleasure for you.
 

Had some help today so moved things along:

Molly was of course Supervising rather than assisting!

Moved some more bushes to the area where the fence will not reach, 
run to keep the same look within the garden.
The fence will have the other bushes run behind it as well, disguising the fence from view.

Now shows the area as it will be, the fence yet to be built.
Best bit Fence builder is arriving tomorrow morning to build it. 😆

Then just power, hedge plants, soil and grass down and be sheltered 
from those pesky lights!!  

18 hours ago, Tomatobro said:

Take a look at http://www.livemeteors.com/

This is a live meteor detection website. Based in (I think) North America/Canada. It gives you an idea of what meteor detection is like when using the GRAVES transmitter in France

That was interesting to read, listen to and watch.
Very interesting indeed.
Looks a cheap way into radio interests, obviously a money pit once the door is opened of course!! 😂

2 hours ago, xtreemchaos said:

its a hard world when a zoom isn't included, I couldn't cope with a single EP its like having a monocycle with one spoke 😀.  

Charl, you can choose a Zoom, the world is your UniCycle Oyster so to speak!

2 hours ago, niallk said:

Ah here!  Are we allowed multiple scopes now, or is this the next step after the single scope thread - pick just one EP to use with it?!!

Scope 15" f4.4, EP = 10E - the basis of my EP set

No separate thread, you can have a multitude of scopes but just one Eyepiece to use with them all!

3 hours ago, JamesF said:

My first thought was also 13mm Nagler.  It's probably the first one out of the case when I'm packing to go on holiday and taking a telescope (or two).

I'm quite fond of my Panoptics though, and I can certainly see the appeal of one of those.  And I do like my 18mm and 12mm BGOs, but I think the limited FOV would mean I'd have to pass on them if I were restricted to just a single eyepiece.

James

You used to be indecisive @JamesF, but are not so sure anymore 😂

So come on which of the herd is 'The One'?

11 minutes ago, George Jones said:

It's possible to have more than scope???

Tell my wife.

Oh yes George,

You can have Many, Many telescopes. 😆
As for Eyepieces, Many more than the Many Telescopes apply. 😆

Hope that helps 😉

Be interested in what you go for Grumpy.

I had a thread on this a while back, Altair told me it would be about £2K to purchase,
I passed on that option very quickly.

https://www.facebook.com/altair.astro/posts/altair-sabre-mount-with-prototype-encoders-and-astro-devices-nexus-dsc-computer-/1947552825487895/

The second link is the Facebook posting from Altair.

3 minutes ago, NGC 1502 said:

...................IF I HAVE NIGHTMARES TONIGHT IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT.  GOT IT ?    😁😁😁😁

Sorry Ed.

In reality it set off my dreaming last night and it was terrible!
Who would of thought it eh.
 

Having pondered my present fleet of scopes more overnight,
I have changed my thoughts slightly.

I would as the one and only have a 10" Dobsonian, for ease of use and its ability to please enough.
This 10" would be my OOUK 10" 1/6 wave but reworked as dobs are to my liking.

6 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

This sort of thread makes me appreciate EP collections more and more

 

Me too Vlaiv, me too.

1 hour ago, Roy Challen said:

I would keep my Skylight, to with with my Zeiss 25H in the other 'one only' thread. And I would only have one mount too.

Now that's an idea for another thread.........

I will resist, I will resist, I will.....

12 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Excellent choice Jeremy, and would be mine also, but just pipped by the the 13 Nagler. ( I will have to sneak mine into the other pocket I think).

You will be frisked and any extraneous Eyepieces will be confiscated!
Every class has a naughty one!

1 minute ago, Ruud said:

I'd want a Morpheus 17.5 to use it with five or so telescopes ranging from 500 to 3000 mm.

Nice thinking Rudd.

8 minutes ago, russ said:

I would like my Speers-Waler 5-8mm zoom back. By far and away the my fav eyepiece. But can i have the Baader 8-24mm zoom to go with it....please

No Russ, just one.
As other have said zoom and a barlow/s is an option.

Just finished fitting a heater to my Telrad, love the Telrad.


It is a bought in circuit board from Dew Control, self adhesive but you solder on wires.

Drilled a small hole in Telrad to route wires to a plug.

All my heaters are on short leads that I then connect to identical longer leads,
this makes lead issues in the field simple to fix as all the leads are the same.
This makes the unit neat when used without the heater.

All run from 12v from mains unit, battery (12v) or via a USB Power bank
and step up lead from W&W Astro.

Should add it works very well, did a trial before cutting the hole and its excellent,
far less fraught with damage danger from a resistor fitting yourself.
It was not expensive and is very neat.

 

19 minutes ago, Ags said:

Wrong thread - this is the one-scope thread 😀

Maybe I would go for a C5 and reducer.

Thanks Ags, nice pointer they are posting in the wrong thread.
 

How did I know the zooms would be a favourite option.

Post Person just delivered 2nd USB to 12v lead from W&W Astro at £7 delivered.
They work well from a 10k rate USB Power Bank.

11 hours ago, Ags said:

Go back to just one scope? The question doesn't make sense to me. It's like going back to just one eyepiece 😃

1 hour ago, sloz1664 said:

That's the next new post

 

You both asked so nicely 
 

Following on from my one telescope thread and suggestions made, here it is....

If you could only have one eyepiece, what would it be?
I know that it is very unlikely a reality, but what the heck.

I would keep my 19mm Panoptic, just love it to bits.

Go on, join in, don't be grumpy or say you wouldn't do it, play on.......

2 hours ago, Ben the Ignorant said:

I would refuse to have only one scope.

So in this scenario you would then have none!
Go on Ben, join in 

To bring my own thread back to life one more line of thought.
The Secondary holder is  big lump of cast alloy and does not allow for a neat installation of a heater.
Or does it?

The stalks on all other secondaries are of a smaller diameter that I have seen.
Has anyone adapted the OOUK big lump of alloy to a smaller one to fit a secondary heater?

Photo again of what I have:

On my SW Newts the same f5 ratio, the holder was smaller and to be honest I felt worked better.

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Shane, glad nightfisher has prodded for an update, otherwise I would have missed your thread somehow.

What a lot of work pre Obs you have done, hat off to you on this whole project.

One question. How tall is the pier plan for above ground?
Interesting design you have, looks good.

An update would be great too