LukeSkywatcher

18 minutes ago, gajjer said:

Hmm. It's not really giving a true impression of scale is it!

I like a good jigsaw. Reminds me of Christmas.

Have we had Christmas yet?

cheers

gaj

Nah, its 10 months away. I do jigsaws all year round. Some of them i glue and frame them and hang on the wall.

Today I received a couple of jigsaws. Each are 1000 pcs.  Both astro related. Only problem is thatthey came in a generic box. I have no picture of either, apart from the tiny one on the site I bought them from. The other jigsaw is Starry Night (my favourite painting).

My vertigo says NO.

Coldest I've been out was -11C. I can't feel my feet (Spina Bifida). I guess that's a silver lining.

I see Equilibrium was mentioned. Good movie. I had been dying to see it. Then the TV premiere came along. Stunning visual effects or cinematography (not sure which).

4 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

But The Dish ( or as my Kiwi friend calls it, The Dush) is true, isn’t it?

Haha. I have a Kiwi friend and he calls fish&chips...fush&chups.

1 minute ago, JeremyS said:

But The Dish ( or as my Kiwi friend calls it, The Dush) is true, isn’t it?

It is as far as I remember.

Just now, JeremyS said:

I was hoping it might be the first use of the term budgie smugglers on SGL. But references go as far back as 2011

What, you mean you researched it?. Must be cloudy where you are.

2 minutes ago, CCD-Freak said:

I am working on my top 10 list but I am surprised that no one has listed "The Dish".  It is one of my very favorite films.

John Love
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

I completely forgot about The Dish. I do believe that I have it on dvd. Must give it another watch.

Sci-Fi to budgie smuggling in 3 moves.

We have a new record.

5 minutes ago, jetstream said:

I have to that that as a Canuck who watched English comedies from very young, Monty Python, Ronnies, Some mothers do have em etc that there is no better comedy or command of the English language than you guys have!

Budgie Smugglers!!lol! man I'm laughing at this one after looking it up and am "chuffed to bits" that I found the meaning 😀

My hat is off to you guys 👍

and I still watch English comedy at every chance. (but no more sci fi )

Its actually an Australian saying. 

Just now, JeremyS said:

Am I the only one that doesn’t like Sci-Fi as a genre?

It wouldn't be my favourite genre. I'm more into thrillers and movies based on real events.

1 minute ago, andrew s said:

That's one HAL of a joke @JeremyS.

My top two are:

1) 2001 A Space Odyssey  - which I went to see with the then Miss Ely who was wearing a very small pair of hot pants.

2) Star Wars A New Hope - which I went to see with my then wife of two years but I don't recall what she was wearing .

Regards Andrew 

Danish Pastries?

In no particular order:

Star Wars (the original trilogy)

District 9

The Martain

Close Encounter (OTTK)

Rogue One

Deadpool (as in X-men)

Stargate

I'm stuck now. I'd have to consult my dvd/br collection.

Can we include tv shows?:

"V"

Mandalorian 

Star Trek: Discovey 

Myself and Lorna have decided that Japan is our honeymoon destination (either 2022 or 2023). Looking at these pics, I might just leave her there and bring back a nice Vixen refrac and a few EPs.

10 minutes ago, SheffieldAstronomer said:

I have ordered

1	"First Horizon 8115 2 Way Heavy Duty Tripod"

Hopefully arrive this week.

Prepare for cloudy skies now 🙈

 

 

 

Its a very sturdy pice of kit. It will last a good few years. 

I used to use a Horizon 8115 for my 20x90 bins. The quick release plate and pan and tilt handle developed a bit of slack/slip. 

I then bought a Ravelli pistol grip/ball mount and tripod. Its brilliant. It was a steal at the time. I couldn't resist.

We still have our tree up. All the local towns around us also have lights and trees up. Its kind of a "movement" over here to help everyone get through January and lockdown.

Excuse my ignorance, but if Astroboot UK are based in the UK, why are they not shipping to UK addresses?.

21 hours ago, fifeskies said:

At 21 seconds past 9.21pm tonight it will be :-

the 21st second of the 21st minute, of the 21st hour, of the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st century !

 

You should have used the 24 hr clock in your opening line. So 9.21pm would become 21.21

On 16/01/2021 at 11:31, rcwinter said:

It’s on my bucket list, but when who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

Its top of my list. I only have 3 yrs to wait. Lorna is taking me for my 50th.

I showed Lorna the iron months ago. I'm too polite to tell you her response. 

A sprinkle of snow on Tues/Wed turned into a  sheet of ice over the next few days/nights because of -4C, -8C. Today is the first time it thawed. Its a balmy 4C today. Lornas car was frozen solid. Couldn't get the doors open for ages.

Bins frozen shut too. 

On 05/01/2021 at 18:45, Second Time Around said:

We're having a new lawn laid later in the year. In the meantime I've had a single slab laid to put my scopes on.

I had thought about additional slabs to walk on, but was concerned they'd heat up during the day and affect the seeing at night as they cool down.

Any thoughts?

Concrete does store heat and release it at night. The was the weather has been since NYE, I don't think there's much to worry about. We hit -8C the last couple of nights.

Greetings from Kildare.