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Some great suggestions there, thanks James. Do you just look for low populated areas on google earth, or is there a dark skies 'layer' or something similar that you've added?

Thanks very much laudropb

Thanks Stever, nice to have such a warm welcome from everyone and see this is a really active site.

Thanks John, I hadn’t even thought of Sand Bay. I’ll check out the Bristol AS as well, would be great to visit an observatory.

Great, thanks Nigella, good to know

Thanks for the nice welcome Hi JamesF and John, nice to know there’s a few of us around the area . Have you got any favourite spots around the region?

Hi stargazers, After lurking for info on various stargazing sites for a while, I’ve finally committed and joined a site, this site I bought an Orion XT8 Dob a couple years ago, and after observing Jupiter and it’s moons through the eyepiece I’ve been hooked ever since. Some recent additions to my setup are a Telrad, which is surpassingly large. As well as 9x50 Illuminated RACI. I’ve got a few questions about my setup, but I won’t pose them just yet, thought I’d say hi to everyone first and will have a look around the current threads before I post. Cheers! Ben