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I was thinking that they come in 2 inch, 1 1/4 inch and 0.965 inch... Putting humour aside, 6mm is getting to the high power end and as already mentioned the SLV 6mm is a great eyepiece. So my guess is this: Most designs at that focal length tend to have uncomfortably short eye relief and a 12.5mm with a 2x barlow is often seen as a better option. A plössl for instance would need your eye wearing the thing almost as tight as a contact lens. Most eyepieces with such short focal lengths with good eye relief could be quite pricey, so I guess that manufacturers just don't fancy making them fearing market saturation.

Going by her naming scheme on the moon's phases, she seems to have quite an advanced understanding there. Think about it: calling it a baby moon is apt and correct as it is early and so young in the lunar cycle.

Be fair! Do you honestly insist on someone called Marios to be English?

Couldn't Taks do everything? 😉

Out of interest at least for now can anyone please identify the tripod the TEC 250 APO is mounted on in the pictures here? https://www.telescopengineering.com/telescope/tec-apo250vt/ I can clearly see the EQ head is a 10micron one, but can't seem to find that tripod and pillar at all. Tried searches but no luck. Thanks in advance for the info.

They're actually great little scopes. They'll split epsilon Lyrae, which for a 60mm refractor is about as good as you can expect. I had / have one (gave it to a friend, tried advising him on how to focus with it but he hasn't a clue. Even linked the YouTube video on that to him) He has kind of offered to give it back. I'm short of house room but when I can accommodate it I would love to have it back. All I'd need to do is get a 0.956 to 1.25 adaptor and I can use my newer eyepieces and diagonal from my Celestron gear

But Stu has a serious advantage: he's got four! 😃

It is a fantastic post. I have two 4 inch achromatic refractors and a 6 inch one too. When the sun is higher and the weather cooperates I hope to give the 6 inch its maiden voyage with the Altair wedge I have. Has some nice viewing with the 4 inchers last spring. I was scared at first to try because of the potential dangers of pointing a telescope at the sun and putting eye to eyepiece. But I am glad I did! I've tried all my filters, an OIII giving sharp definition in my humble opinion, very similar to the solar continuum filter.

When Worlds Collide...

Owning but not using a 350D for a long time and never for astro, all I can say is shy away from high ISOs. Being an older model they're not exactly stellar performers when you ramp it up. The general rule with cameras of that era was to keep the ISO as low as possible to minimise noise and image degradation. Even 400 might be pushing it too far. I've accidentally left the ISO high and even daylight and sunny day pictures have been horribly grainy looking with my 350D

Don't worry. I can see FLO selling lots and lots of lovely new kit and all the clouds they pack spoiling everyone's view 😂😂😂

They've probably compiled and sorted a list even before they got near testing phase on the ground. Or at least I hope they have. Problem with that is going to be what of anything new that deviates from the list more than a small amount, like say a sudden new exoplanet that just demands attention

Maybe you need to work it into some Scrabble games. On a new note I wonder if the shuttle was still available if the JWST could have been configured in low earth orbit then pushed out saving a load of fuel for the mission. Perhaps that might have been the original plan; I don't know. It's a thought though if nothing else.

You know; I actually like this rendition and attempt. Do you know why? It's because this is how M31 looks through the telescope (if you're lucky enough to be at a dark sky site and you have a good wide field telescope and eyepiece combination. So, I wouldn't chuck it because it's refreshing to see images that also reflect what you might see

Sadly LED lights are so efficient that people would gladly suffer greater unsecurity to have them on 24/7

For all those afflicted by the inconsiderates, try this: Grab this and play it from start to finish See who wins the war of attrition.

Sadly with the crowd comes light pollution plus the inevitable rotten apple in the barrel

When I saw the thread title I thought someone left a Citroën 2CV in your skip

That'll be like asking which of your children would you keep in a like situation! 😮

I should hope not! I'd be gutted with the slightest flaw

That reads like a full house on the euromillions lottery draw. Probably need one too to pay for that lot!

Could that be a flock? Or is that just inside the tube? 😉

Yay!!! 🎉🎊

You do know that old saying don't you: Philately gets you nowhere!

Perhaps they're in cahoots with FLO's round sticker labels. I tell ya it's a conspiracy!