Daniel-K

Oh my!! What a bunch of retards

happy for you,mate. Is your new place less light polluted?

unfortunately no, the place im in now is amazing. the milky way blaze's most nights and M31 and the double cluster are naked eye objects . its a sacrifice but also an excuse to go mono CCD ;)

Well, as long as you could get your own observatory, then this will be a good compromise. :)

If you post that on ABS, I'm sure somebody would sell some sleep :D :D

probably not. i just get jealous :)

that too

might have to buy a AZ4 and some EPS be nice to finish my night shifts in the winter and be able to grab some WF views

Have you worked out what to spend it on yet?

Im dreaming of a 383L but I reckon the wife will see most of it for the new house :(

I'm sure it'll serve you well. :)

My 102ED should be here on Monday

i was bidding on a 102 starwave on Ebay but i read some bad things about them about blue halos

On the contrary - they outperform the Skywatcher versions as apos. I talked to several people who had the 80ED and 102ED

only just more than I paid second hand for my 16" Lightbridge.i considered one but was hoping someone would buy one and give a review so I didn't have to be the beta tester

Got same email, but couldnt care less :)

Better getting a Nichol mirror and build your own.

It's one of those things that you can DIY - get a piece of rubber and squeeze it in. It worked for me :)

What goal?

My saving for new gear is going well must stop looking at abs :)

Yeh, such a major pain. :)

I just take lots of bias instead, they only take 1/4000sec each. Don't use darks anymore, not worth it for sub 2 minute subs.

how you getting on with your 130pds?

Same as your lights i think Daniel, only the shutter speed should be changed!

Yep, got 9pm-1am as clear. But the mess office definition of "clear sky" is very different to ours. Fingers crossed anyway!

Id like some more data on ngc 6888.