Joel Camunias
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20200513_195635.heicI am late to this thread. My TV NP101is on a Vixen GP DX 20200513_195635.heic
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Good suggestions and new things to try. I need to get out of my comfort zone to try the enhanced viewing ideas here. Thanks all!
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The bug started back in the early 2000's with my first department store 3 inch Newtonian. It was nearly unuseable. I could see the moon but poorly. This was before I learned about collimation. Later l purchased a better one on an equatorial mount which confounded me to no end but it got me learning about the night sky. Then got annoyed with reflectors and got an achromatic refractor with a goto. It worked most of the time and I got a glimpse of some of the wonders in a dark sky. Fast forward to the present with a high end refractor on an undriven GEM mount. These days we are confined to backyard (urban visual )astronomy. Light pollution is ever present. With a UHC filter, I am limited to viewing planets when available and and double stars. It has been a very cold and cloudy spring so it has been a poor period for astronomy. With longer day lights approaching, "grab and go" is more the norm. On those tired nights, that is when the second hobby kicks in! I would be happy to hear from other visual urbanites out there and their favourite celestial objects and how they adapt this hobby.
