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  1. toilandtrouble123
    moon shots 90mm refractor 19.05.13 036

    From the album: Moon Shots 19/05/2013

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    moon shots 90mm refractor 19.05.13 033

    From the album: Moon Shots 19/05/2013

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    moon shots 90mm refractor 19.05.13 032

    From the album: Moon Shots 19/05/2013

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    moon shots 90mm refractor 19.05.13 031

    From the album: Moon Shots 19/05/2013

  5. toilandtrouble123
    Moon shot 19.05.2013 favourite

    From the album: Moon Shots 19/05/2013

    Yes, I need to clean my optics :-/
  6. toilandtrouble123

    Sorry I haven't been on here in a few months, have had to deal with a huge upheaval in my life and lots of nasty drama, am now back, and back to cussing about the cloud cover :(

  7. toilandtrouble123

    new scope should arrive today or tomorrow :D

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    2. K3ny0n

      K3ny0n

      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.

    3. foundaplanet

      foundaplanet

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

    4. 5Makes7

      5Makes7

      Any word on wich Scope? i missed something?

      S.J.

  8. toilandtrouble123

    My 6" reflector will be with me by Friday!!!! Yaaay!!!

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    2. Pig

      Pig

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

    3. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      arrrrgghhhh dying with anticipation!!!!

    4. Obi Wan Ken00bi

      Obi Wan Ken00bi

      6inch reflectors ftw!

  9. toilandtrouble123

    Ahhh, to think that in nearly a week's time, I'll be holding my scope in my hands :D

    1. Capricorn

      Capricorn

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

    2. Icey85

      Icey85

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

  10. toilandtrouble123

    I've slipped over on the darned ice, I hurt :(

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    2. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

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

    3. alan potts

      alan potts

      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

    4. Icey85

      Icey85

      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 :)

  11. toilandtrouble123

    Maybe tonight the skies will give me my second chance with my DSLR

    1. Icey85

      Icey85

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

    2. mareprah

      mareprah

      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 :)

    3. Icey85

      Icey85

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

  12. toilandtrouble123

    Will be getting my new scope in two weeks time! :D

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    2. nephilim

      nephilim

      Great stuff Nat :D

    3. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      canny wait, dead excited! majorly geeked out and freaked out people at work over it lol xx

    4. Icey85

      Icey85

      whoop! mine should arive Friday - dont think ill have much trouble staying awake to not miss the delivery though! Your right, the excitement is something....unique! x

  13. toilandtrouble123

    I know this is not astro-related, buy going out tonight, and trying something "girly"...but OMG, how DO girls put false eyelashes on?!?!

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    2. Icey85

      Icey85

      Girls and eyelashes!?! Even cars are wearing them now?!?! Lol, i ask you!? I'd just settle for some more hair! :)

    3. Bigdaddyjeff

      Bigdaddyjeff

      i struggle everytime :)

    4. Space Dragon

      Space Dragon

      I actually trimmed mine down with my beard trimmer the other day to stop them touching my EPs..!!

  14. toilandtrouble123

    oh my, is that blue sky I see out of my window....?

    1. Pig

      Pig

      Ha ha, someone has painted your windows.

    2. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      droll.... :D

  15. toilandtrouble123

    my laptop has mysteriously restored itself to its factory settings, and I have lost EVERYTHING!!

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    2. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      Nope, strangely enough was gonna do one this weekend, now I had some stuff on it worth saving (i.e my first pics with my dslr, WoW, saved documents). Only had this laptop a couple of weeks too..

    3. foundaplanet

      foundaplanet

      You did post some pics on SGL though so at least you still have your first shots.

    4. Pig

      Pig

      At least you have them.

  16. toilandtrouble123

    cloud again, and definatly getting chillier...

  17. toilandtrouble123

    Nope, no chance for me tonight, the fog is now getting even worse ffs!

    1. chrisfellows

      chrisfellows

      Same! I've got a new scope that I haven't had a chance to properly use yet!!! The joys of living in the UK :-/

      Not sure there's any point in saying it but "Clear Skies" :-D lol

  18. toilandtrouble123

    HTC says partly sunny, MetOffice says clear night with patchy mist in rural areas....My house (near town centre) view: thick fog like out of a horror movie! Getting fed up with this weather

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    2. foundaplanet

      foundaplanet

      Yeah but look on the bright side. After six weeks of constant cloud there always comes six weeks of continuous cloud.

    3. cheb

      cheb

      good old HTC says sunny? At night!

      Its thick low cloud here but i have seen two stars!!

    4. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      @foundaplanet - your wit is as ever so amusing....

      @cheb - the way my htc thinks, is well unique

  19. toilandtrouble123

    Will be heading out tonight with the DSLR for my second attempt at constellation shots and star trails, staying in town though, so light pollution will be a [removed word]

  20. toilandtrouble123

    I can see blue sky.... :D

  21. toilandtrouble123
    After nights of cloud and rain, boredom and desire to improve on my set-up, I started going through the classifieds, astrobuysell and preloved for a bargain EQ3-2 mount, to compliment my refractor. After seeing that they are £170 brand new for that price, I could get a whole newtonian set-up of decent aperture second hand. And so, I now have my eye on a couple of SkyWatcher 150mm on EQ5 or better ads. Coincidentally, I have noticed a hell of an influx of RAW newbies enquiring about first time scope set-ups (must be the Cox effect lol!), and to my surprise, a fair few of them are either going for the 150, or a 200 - just what I'm looking at for a step up second scope (makes me feel a bit sad and stupid). Its quite interesting having new newbies (ha!) asking my opinion on scopes for their first time that I want as my second! I have even gone so far as to give someone my shopping list because they are going to go for the same set-up, could be interesting to compare first lights, if they do get the same scope and mount! So, payday is coming ever closer, still no clear nights for going out with my camera or scope, and that frustration itself, is making me chomp at the bit even more to get my hands on a bigger, more capable scope than my beloved 90mm refractor. Patience Natalie, patience. So, I have decided to take the plunge, and shall be the proud owner of a Helios (which I believe is what SkyWatcher used to be called) 150mm reflector on a EQ5 mount for £200 in a fortnight. Plus £55 (including VAT) for a collection from the lovely lady in Hastings via Parcelforce, and then I can my paws on my new toy. I will be buying the dual motor drive for the mount for £90, and a polar scope for £32, and I'll be readily armed for combat! After those purchases, I'm thinking of buying a Skywatcher LPR filter, Cheshire collimator, Photoshop or similar software, a celestron powertank (for laptop, phone and charging camera batteries whilst out observing) and might get a second flight case for the reflector eyepieces and collimator, as my current one is rather chok a blok. My poor bank balance......
  22. toilandtrouble123

    damn cloud, and now I wish i had a tv license.....

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    2. toilandtrouble123

      toilandtrouble123

      nah, I might as well go on WoW....

    3. foundaplanet

      foundaplanet

      Ay,

    4. Letchy

      Letchy

      I'm sure it will be available somewhere on the internet soon, I would check YouTube. :) I think I may have recorded the programme to watch later... If I could, I would help you out.

  23. toilandtrouble123
    really interesting, thankyou, can't wait to step up to a SkyWatcher 150 from my 90mm refractor. :)
  24. toilandtrouble123

    talking to the kitten in mews and miaows about how buying a new scope is essential to the house's existence :D

    1. rowan46

      rowan46

      I wouldn't bother. Kittens are not interested in anything astronomical except string theory.

  25. toilandtrouble123
    Nice shot!! I can't wait to get back out there to put the advice I received into practice :)
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