toilandtrouble123

Good luck with Saturn  it is pretty clear hear at the moment also so hopefully it will stay so.

Nope.... cloud rolling over the Downs from the south, thickening with every 10mins...

been there morethan once,i give it the "or well".

Ouch. Know the feeling. Part of the mistakes that go with the territory to get the good stuff, hope your next session is a good 'un.

Or in a number of my sessions, you realise that you never finished focusing in the first place lol.

It arrived Sunday just after 11am, and looks awesome! Had to re-arrange my flight case, and my OCD with the foam arrangements kicked in, and cos obviously I don't have the old foam that I took out five years ago when I first got it, it's not all even and level where I had to re-pack some of the foam from places I had to pluck it from to move my LPR filter and EP in. major :( over uneven foam.....

I purposely wont buy anymore EPs for this exact reason :D

Astronomer's OCD...... loooool!!!

So much light pollution is white light that a filter for it is close to impossible.

Not round here, evil orange light permeates everything....

Did they give a cause for it? Does not sound like something that just occurs. Also sounds like the "treatment" may take an extended time.

Cant pinpoint when it happened exactly, may have something to do with recording 4 mins of System Of A Down's opening performance at Wembley Friday night. But we were seated (other half has fractured foot). Got sent home with tramadol, naproxen and amitriptyline, and instructions to not do anything strenuous til the pain subsides. So that crosses out lugging my AZ-4 down two flights of stairs... :-( one shall entertain ones self with looking at everyone else's astrophotos and endeavou...

What is/was the cause? My last nasty painful back turned out to be a kidney stone. If yours was a strain then let it heal, then slowly and lightly strengthen it. Then get back to observing. Do not go out too soon, get warm clothing even in summer, good body warmer is useful.

While I can sympathise with your back pain and know personally how bad it can be please remember this is a family friendly forum and the same rules apply to status updates as they do to any other part of the forum.

Peter..

Only said b.u.g.g.e.r...... Got a Drs appointment in an hr, as been bedridden for two and a half days. The pain is too high for kidney trouble, something muscular as I keep having painful spasms. Tramadol and 1000mg of co-codamol is not touching it. And I wanna do is get out there with my baby scope, bins and cameras, and teach the other half what little I know.

Sounds excellent :-)

Time sure does fly by.....

What refractor, what camera?

Is a diagonal involved.

If it's a refractor and you don't have a diagonal you may need to add a diagonal or an extension tube. Pretty much all refractors are designed to be used with a diagonal for visual, when you try to focus do you run out of in focus or out focus?

Its the SkyScout, before the move I had no trouble, and after moving again, I'm starting to worry its had some damage in transit :/

Indeed. Such a devastating event.

xxxx

Hope it doesn't come with a full box of clouds because it supposedly going to be clear here tonight! .. Enjoy your new scope though.

Great, more snow on the way then..:D

Any word on wich Scope? i missed something?

S.J.

youve been waiting a little while now - I bet you cant wait :-)

arrrrgghhhh dying with anticipation!!!!

6inch reflectors ftw!

They work a lot better if you attach them to a mount.

Beat me to it ;) I hope that week doesnt feel such a long one. Mines arrived too but of course so's the weather :(

didnt take the scope, only the dslr. hurt the side of my leg, not amused..

Hope your not too bad Strange thing is I was always falling over in Engand when ice was around. Here we have snow and ice for about 3 months and I don't have a problem. Maybe the ice is not so slippery.

Alan. Bulgaria

Hows the leg? Im driving home at about 0600 in the mornig and hoping the snow'll stay away long enough for me to get the car up the hill :)

Fingers crossed for you. see - as i said, im on night duty and the clouds whisp away :-)

Fingers crossed from me too. We've got a snow blaze here in south europe, so hopefully all the clouds are here and not wher u live :)

OOOoo, Its harsh, but a snow covered Slovenia must be simply beautiful :)