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59 minutes ago, JamesF said:

John probably knows of better areas near you than I am likely to.  The skies are quite dark where I am so I don't really need to travel.

Obviously Exmoor is pretty good, but that's not somewhere you can just nip out to.  Looking at Google Earth I'd probably be tempted to head towards Axbridge.  Perhaps try the car park at the Webbington Hotel, or if you fancy something spooky, it looks like there's a car park opposite the church in Compton Bishop.  The yatch club site on Cheddar reservoir might be worth checking out, too.

James

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?

1 hour ago, laudropb said:

Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL 

Thanks very much laudropb 

5 minutes ago, sloz1664 said:

Hi Ben, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge

Stever

 

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

7 minutes ago, John said:

I mostly observe from my back garden but I'm a member of Bristol Astro Society who have a small observatory not far from me so I can also observe from there.

I've heard that the National Trust car park at Sand Point is a pretty dark spot but I've not yet tried it myself.

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