glafnazur

That's so poor. At our society we make a point of welcoming newcomers and positively encourage them to bring their scopes, ideally to our observing sessions but if they can't make those then to any of our other two monthly meetings. We introduced a second meeting to our monthly programme quite a few years back just for beginners so they could bring along scopes and so that they could ask any questions they may have.

In the cold I'll make a coffee or hot chocolate and on the warmer nights I make do with a small bottle of lucozade or juice. I try not to drink too much otherwise there are too many loo trips spoiling my night vision!!!

All of our regular DDAS meetings are open to the public although the meeting fee is £3 for visitors rather £1 for members. If eventually they want to become a member then fair enough, if not then they are still welcome to attend when it suits them.

Nice Goran, I particularly like Sh2-181 👍

Wonderful images and amazing dedication 👍

I've bought and sold on here and ABS without any problems. I have also bought and sold telescopes on eBay without problems but that was many years ago before I knew about ABS and SGL. Personally I'd only use eBay if I had something to sell that I couldn't shift here or on ABS.

I've bought and sold numerous scopes but the only one I have regretted selling was my beautiful WOZS66. One thing I do truly regret, and this is not equipment related, is the fact that I have not recorded all or at least most of my observing sessions. I record more and make sketches nowadays but when I first got my scope I never bothered.

Wow, great image

That's a beautiful mount 🤤

That's a beautiful image. At first glance it really does resemble a planet with it's distant sun 👍

I I must admit I haven't read it yet, I'm way behind with my reading list.

I know there's a few more knocking about the house but here's the majority of mine.

yes, we've a few telescopes at the observatory that never get used. We made them available to members but take up wasn't good.

I'm a member of the Derby and District Astronomical Society and we have a small library of donated books which are available for members. No one has taken one out for years now 😔 We are thinking of selling them off at our 50th anniversary events this year.

Another addition to my Morpheus collection, just the 14mm to get. And my first TV eyepiece 18.2mm Delite

M81 is such a beautiful galaxy and I love the widefield image.

Great image and thanks for pointing out the Hubble image, it is really spectacular 👍

Wow, amazing detail 👍

Super image Goran, I love the Rice Hat Nebula.

Used mine for the first time tonight on Jupiter and I was well impressed with how it performed.

Very nice, I like the close up version best 👍

That's a great image 👍

It's here I'm impressed by the build quality. All I need now is clear skies...................

These keep getting great write ups so I have gone ahead and ordered one.