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11 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

We could well  do the same, apart from a couple of good star and lunar atlases the rest are taking up valuable space.  We also have a lot of telescopes in the same situation.    🙂 

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. 

46 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

We have several hundred books including all the usual favourites, sadly it's rare these days that anyone takes one from the shelves.      ☹️

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.

On 25/01/2024 at 22:22, SuburbanMak said:

Joining the SV Bony 3-8mm Zoom club…

 

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...................

11 minutes ago, Stu said:

A SvBony 3 to 8mm zoom for me. Having borrowed Paul’s and been very impressed by it, I ordered one and it came very quickly. Been viewing Jupiter with it tonight, though the seeing is not great.

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

Courtesy of our friends at FLO a 1.25 Astronomik UHC filter 🙂

1 hour ago, SwiMatt said:

Besides, for visual use the aberration might be more tolerable. If one has the money, the 90FL seems like a great portable scope - although maybe not quite small enough to fly easily with it.

By the way, another unseen advantage for a light frac with smaller aperture is how convenient it would be for solar observation. Smaller filters (easier to carry for, and easier to replace if the foil tears), smaller set up. I could almost think about putting the setup in the backpack for a lunch session.

I think, as a summary, there is not one person here who thinks that a committed astronomer should go for a fast achromat if money isn't the main issue at hand. Apo wins in basically every respect for this type of usage. A good apo regularly seem to punch above its weight - a thing that is not easily said for any other scope that I heard discussed. But at this point I might slowly update other things and go for a big purchase later in the year (I'm thinking that Williams Optics instruments look veeeeeery sleek and beautiful)...

I have the William Optics ZS61 and it is a lovely scope, my most used scope last year. I used to have the ZS66 but I sold it on and immediately regretted it.

7 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

oddly, though, Jupiter showed a lot of detail at c 150x even through the cloud, and the seeing was much improved.

So good to be back in action!

Dave

 

I experienced a similar thing when viewing Jupiter through the cloud on Saturday at our society's observing evening. We all remarked about how much more detail there appeared to be. I thinking maybe the cloud removes some of the glare which prevents seeing the finer detail.

It was lovely and clear when I got home, I had something to eat and just looked out and now there's a layer of high cloud.

3 minutes ago, Mr Spock said:

It's looking better than recently:

I can't remember when I last saw that much green on CO.

Wall to wall cloud here in Derby despite what Metcheck thinks.........

Truly an amazing image Olly. What I really like about it is that it puts everything into perspective, it shows where objects, that we know so well, are in relation to each other and their size. It always amazes me how big some of these objects are. 

For many years I didn't have goto so I used to star hop or I'd use the 'point it in roughly the right direction and move the scope about until I find it' method. There was always a feeling of satisfaction finding an object manually, however over the past few years my sessions have been few and far between so I mainly use goto when I do manage to get out.

Great image, as good a rendition as any I can remember seeing of this galaxy 👍

Nice image, great to see this region in widefield 👍

Excellent images Paul and I love all your video journals. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too 🎄

Great set of images 👍