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    A nice discovery

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    Posted · Edited by Sunshine

    Nice report! I too find that I really enjoy views through my 102 with my 9mm morpheus which is a similar combination to what you used. Those open clusters and doubles look great when set against a black sky. Regarding your surprise discovery of Beta M, it's so cool when you discover something for the first time, Imagine my shock a few years back when I first discovered that Epsilon Lyrae was actually a double double! while looking through my old 115mm Eon, I was breathless. 

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    Show us your set up in action at night.

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    On 23/12/2022 at 23:13, ONIKKINEN said:

    First light of a newly installed Helmerichs carbon tube:

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    Perfect conditions for heavy frost, was above 0 and raining in the afternoon and then plunged to -6 for the night with humidity licking the 100% mark all the way. Also perfect conditions for 3'' fwhm seeing, but beggars cant be choosers so the scope goes out.

    Its mildly interesting that anything with electronics in it, namely the 2 cameras and the mount, are free of frost while everything else is completely frozen. Almost looks like the clean cameras dont belong in the scene with how dry they are.

    That scope looks like it’s been dipped in liquid nitrogen 🤣

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    I'll get my coat

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    Posted · Edited by Sunshine

    12 minutes ago, Franklin said:

    I even thought for a moment that I was getting a hint of Merope nebulosity, but then realized my breath had misted up the eyepiece! Doh!

    😅 funny cause I had the exact same experience, once. For a second I thought my 4” refractor was punching way above it’s aperture.

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    I'll get my coat

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    30 minutes ago, Spile said:

    I was looking at the Pleiades last night thinking they looked a little disappointing before I realised that I was looking through my finder instead of my eyepiece. Another senior moment.

    It’s too bad you weren’t blown away by the view as you could have just sold the scope and kept the finder, the ultimate grab and go!

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    Show us your set up in action at night.

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    6 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

    Just in, I'm absolutely frozen, never seen the inside of my dome freezing up before. I had my heated gloves on, my heated back pad but my feet I could not feel. Jupiter was great, red spot was just coming onto the disk when I went out and Mars although not as good as last night had many features visible. Used 500gb of data, lol. 

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    Love those dome images with Orion looming! and as for frozen limbs, they’re only an issue while you can still feel them, afterwards you’re good to go for the night.

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    Show us your Tak

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    Posted · Edited by Sunshine

    7 hours ago, JeremyS said:

    Getting the Mewlon ready for Jupiter tonight, whilst the C11 is gathering photometry on variable stars

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    Beautiful scope! I take it you are warming up to the mewlon, are the planetary views impressive? and what's with the palm tree in England? 😂

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