Mr Spock

There's a review of the 5mm here https://astro-talks.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1557#p20906

Mine is sort of portable - I can move it from the shed to the patio

I don't have the luxury of dark skies. The moon is really amazing though with 12", especially when you get good seeing conditions.

Vixen SLVs are orthos with 20mm eye relief. £134. Nirvanas are excellent 82° eyepieces at just £85. StellaLyra UFF (not 30mm - that's over budget) range from £119 to £79.

Bologna - baloney is American I prefer polony myself

Sounds like you have a nice scope there Nicola. It's amazing though what a difference dark skies make. For those of us who spend most of our time with severe LP it can be jaw dropping.

Don't they charge extra for them?

Three tremendous images. Well done everyone.

Nice one Mandy 👍

My garden is in darkness, but if I were the neighbours opposite I'd have something to say about this.

6:30... 6:30am that damn dog was outside barking this morning. If I was less harmless I'd wring its neck 😡

I've not looked at them recently. I'll have to give both scopes a go. I remember they were very easy in the C9.25 with the 22mm LVW.

My 8" f4 is a good RFT. With a 30mm UFF I get an exit pupil of 7mm and a fov of 2.4°. You could make that 2.9° with a 31mm Nagler.

I lost a dust cap off the top of one of my Nirvanas 😡 If anyone has a spare...

My SL 30mm is as good as it gets. Sharp right to the edge. I can't find anything negative to say about it.

An oldie, but it fits the recent weather.

Maybe we are just equipment sensualists who like to play with expensive things?

Astrologer - isn't that someone who looks through a horror scope...?

You can have my neighbours. One one side I have a noisy door banger - I can't physically close my own doors that loud! The other side we have a yapping dog outside at all hours. They also have a searchlight, er, I mean security light, on all night. Thankfully that house is lower than mine so it's below the fence line. I don't know what the neighbours opposite think of it though as it illuminates their bedrooms all night

I have both a StellaLyra 12" f5 Dobsonian and a StellaLyra 8" f/4 M-LRN Newtonian. The 12" is a doddle to collimate - it takes a few seconds at the start of each session. The 8" f4 is a lot more difficult and I'm not sure I've ever got it right and I (allegedly) know what I'm doing. The 8" f4 has huge back focus for imaging and the matching coma corrector works really well. For visual you need a couple of extension tubes to get it to focus - it was made for imaging. The build quality is excellent as are all the StellaLyra scopes.

We need to respect what people identify as

If you were to, hypothetically, manufacture these, you wouldn't be able to sell them here without permission from admin

The mount can be adjusted. It just hasn't been set up properly.

I refer to myself as a cloud watcher.

If two stars were spinning, they would contribute to each other's spin rather than start to orbit. So if spinning the same they would slow each other due to gravitational drag; if spinning opposite they would speed up for the same reason. Imagine the latter scenario run wild! If they weren't already in orbital motion they would just collapse in on each other before any of that happened.