LukeSkywatcher

On 20/01/2020 at 22:08, joe aguiar said:

If it's that that u circled in red then yes just tighten it and it should be ok

Joejaguar 

Yep, thats how to do it. Just tighten the threaded shaft holding the secondary mirror in place. My Heritage had the same problem when it arrived from UK. 

You may need to colimate afterwards, but I didnt.

Strathspey 10x50.

Strathspey 20x90.

Lunt Whitelight 8x32 Sunoculars (see image below)

Omegon 2.4x40 widefield binoculars (see image below).

What are the odds of getting gambling ads on your screen, when you dont gamble.

Spotted Beetlejuice the other night, naked eye. It's very dim compared to any other time I've seen it in 40 years.

I've been reading a lot lately about it and many people think we are witnessing the death of it. If so, it's already happened, and given the speed of light we will see changes over the next few months/years.

One show I saw on TV said that when Betelguese does go SN, the resulting SN or Nebula will completely fill the sky. We wont be able to see anything else.

I call this "Lorna Drives to Tesco". She has an annoying habit of driving around all the back roads to avoid traffic on the main street. Normal time from house to Tesco is about 15 mins. Going Lorna's way could be 50 mins, crossing in and out of 3 counties (Kildare, Meath and Dublin).

I plan to go outside. Cant see anything with a roof.

Looks like a sad dirty Snowman.

3 minutes ago, kirkster501 said:

iPlayer is your friend  

Not available in Ireland.

Completely forgot about it.

A total eclipse is top of my list. There's one visible from Southern Spain on 12th Aug 2026. Hopefully, I'll make that one. At least in spain, in August, there shouldn't be clouds. It also wouldn't be financially draining, and you can make a 2 week summer holiday out of it.

I could even do the 2024 in USA. My sis lives there and would be good excuse to visit. She's in Reno (Nevada).

Sounds interesting. 

Does a Star Wars Christmas jumper count?.

I better go to bed. Dont want a lump of coal.

We were woken up this morning at 4am by a very bright flash of light and then a very loud bang. This morning I was browsing my town's community notice boards, and a fair few other people reported the same. Nobody said that they saw anything in the sky, but saw the flash and heard the bang. I can only guess that it was a meteorite. I haven't read anything online about it. Might be something on the evening news.

It was quite a spectacular event, if a little scary.

I've been to a couple of the islands at different times of the year. I dont do imaging, so I just bring 10x50 bins. Amazingly, every time I go, it's clear and hot during the day, but nights just seem to be cloudy and very breezy.

Not much help I'm afraid. I'd aim for getting above the cloud as much as possible.

Heading to Lanzarote next year, at some stage. Most likely July.

I'll be missing it. Stoopid headcold.

I saw the most amazing Geminids a few yrs back. Probably the best meteor shower I've ever seen. They were coming thick and fast. I saw about 80 in the space of an hour. 

Cant remember the year, but it was within the last 10 yrs.

26 minutes ago, carastro said:

I always think meteor showers are a disappointment, and have stopped bothering to watch them.  One of these days though I must set up my camera for a few hours worth of capture and see what I get.

Carole 

I love the fact that we sit, stand for hours hoping to see any. We think "right, any second now". We dare not go inside for fear of missing them.

Unless of course its cloudy. Then we go to bed and cant sleep because we are looking out every 5 minutes. 

All very exciting.

Thought I'd missed it. Hopefully catch a few over next couple of nights.

Aggghhhhh!!!!. I forgot about the Geminids

 Not sad really because its been horrible and stormy here for the last couple of night.

Cant say ive ever noticed "Public Profile Message" before.

Wow!!!. Not a single drop in the ROI.

3 minutes ago, JamesF said:

But your delivery would probably end up more like this

James

Knowing my luck.

4 hours ago, souls33k3r said:

Mr Rossiter

I wish the postman would bring me abs like Mr. Rossiter's.

You really only need an external ERF on refractors of a certain aperture, and mainly if imaging...so I've read.