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  1. It is worth checking planning permission of which ever building that is. Whether or not there are conditions on the use of lights. There is a business where I live which is constantly in breach of a condition not to have lights on when it is dark. I am currently battling it through the planning authority.
  2. I have been looking at 68 degrees EP. It seems the options could be to buy a 24mm EP to replace the stock EP. It can also help at lower magnification. With a Barlow it will produce an exit pupil and magnification suitable for some sample DSO nebula I checked on the FLO tool. Is there anything wrong in using the Barlow to get the correct exit pupil rather than buy a specific EP?
  3. Dear Paz. Thanks for your detailed response. I have quoted above the points that seem to add some learning to what I knew but didn't understand. This will give me something to think about. Good point and I hadn't even considered that. Thank you. For some reason your post doesn't quote correctly. I have bought a new book "Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders: From Novice to Master Observer (DIY Science) " I will look further into the website you quoted.
  4. Thanks for that. I have read that and entered a rabbit hole on the internet. I am not sure I am any the wiser now 😬 but certainly confused.
  5. Hi all. With the help of this forum I got my self kitted up about a year ago. I would appreciate some assistance where I go now with equipment if anywhere. I have a 10" dob, bader zoom and the Barlow, 35mm 2" ep and the stock 25mm ep. I upgraded the straight finder to a RACI and have added an oiii filter (a cheap brand) and an astronomik UHC filter (1.25"). I also bought a Rigel finder. I even upgraded my sky moving from Bortle 6/7 to Bortle 4. I use The Observers Sky Atlas and David Chandler Planisphere. What I have determined is I prefer to look for DSOs. I am not too bothered about stars. I do enjoy seeing Jupiter and Saturn and once or twice I have tried the moon. However I am quite happy to spend an hour finding one or two difficult DSO and be content with that. I mostly use the zoom scope but I don't like the narrow view. I also don't like the more I zoom in the darker the image becomes. Is this normal though? The 35mm has its uses but is not consistently used. I have only used the Barlow for planets and the moon. I would appreciate some views on what if anything I could look in to buying that might help me now I know what I like doing. Thank you.
  6. Sometime last year I bought a 10" bresser dob with help from this forum. I had some good times in my back garden with a perfect south view despite being town centre. Unfortunately over the winter there was a large and permanent increase in light pollution. So much so it was never actually dark and I gave up using the scope. I have since moved as planned to what the internet tells me is bortle 4. The view from my back garden is primarily N/NE which I can see down to 5degree above the horizon without obstruction in almost complete darkness. If I shuffle around I can also get about 15degrees south albeit with light pollution domes. If I can work out how to transport my dob on foot I can also go to a completely open area in every direction about 500m from my front door. Overhead I can see some detail of the Milky Way. So all in all a new world right on my doorstep. I was out of the hobby so long I forgot I had bought an astronomic UHC filter which I found in my kit unopened. The first two nights since moving I have spent working out how to use everything again. I have now got naked eye objects like the double cluster. The fact I can actually see stuff just by looking is making finding objects a lot easier. M31 was always a struggle now I can find it instantly. Through the EP the main difference is M110 is easily seen too. I like nebula so I tend to focus on that using a zoom EP. M27 is a grey blob on the finder scope. Through the EP I tried sticking an Oii and UHC on and comparing. I couldn't really see any difference. Both ways I can see the 'apple core' and the fainter 'bubble' around it. M57 however was different. The UHC filter gave a bright outer right and a black middle. Oiii gave me the ring but also inside I could see very faint the central star. I also managed to fit in a look at Jupiter and four of it's moons. There is a lot of haze in the direction so the seeing was poor but I could make out the banding and define the different colours, in moments of clarity. Add to all that all I can really hear is some strange bird or animal calling now and again. Being able to sit out and observe is certainly good for mental health and appreciating whats around.
  7. orions_boot

    Hi again

    Hi all I was contributing and visit this forum last year. I took an enforced break from astronomy. Sometime during the winter of 2020 and early 2021, there was a big influx of artificial lights in my town in the only view I had (south). Possibly an increase in activity in the docks area resulted in them needing more lights to be on all the time. At best the clear outside tool rated my sky at Bortle 6. However it was never dark no matter what time of night and it got to a point where it was so bright I couldn't find anything any more. Last week I completed a house move to Bortle 4 area. The first 2 nights were very dark but also I was very tired so no observing. Looks like the weather is picking up from now on, and I will return to contribute again 👍
  8. It is green for me and I don't expect anything, so I think you saw green. I didn't even know what it was supposed to look like until I saw it first then looked at the internet. Shows blue with an oiii filter.
  9. I have not seen many DSO but the only one I have seen that isn't pale grey and white is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_Nebula See if you can find that perhaps? It is dark green unfiltered, and blue through a oiii filter for me.
  10. I got the astro essentials one and seems pretty decent to me.
  11. I got out last night. Looking back at my logs the last clear night I was able to get out was 22nd Nov 2020! Got sight of: Eskimo nebula: no filter this time. Averted vision could see the nebula as green and direct vision the star within only. With oiii filter last time it was blue. Hubble variable nebula: also no filter and appears white/grey. Christmas tree cluster Crab Nebula: almost missed it. It was probably about as faint an object as my eye will detect. However it is pretty big. Absolutely no detail just an elongated oval of smudge. Looking in to buying a UHC filter which might help? Rosette Nebula: Couldn't see the nebula but saw the saw cluster. Again a UHC filter may help apparently? M36/M37/M38 Lambda Orionis system: Don't usually bother checking out double stars but since the sky was so bright I tried it. Probably try a few more. Very little separation which made it worthwhile when I could make it out.
  12. @MattG if you upgrade the finder scope as suggested then I can send you bolts free of charge to fit the new shoe you would also need to buy. Message me if you do go that way send me your address I will send on the bolts.
  13. Thanks for making this so simple to understand. I had not considered the type of nebula I am looking at.
  14. Sorry to bring up an old thread but this seems to be THE thread for filters. Despite reading all of it I still haven't answered my question for my self. I have a oiii filter. Relatively bright sky internet estimates bortle 6. I know oiii is different to UHC, but given how bright my sky is, is there much benefit in buying a UHC? I was looking at the explore scientific 2" so it fits all EPs I have and may buy.
  15. Thanks, have you been before and can comment on the standard of the accommodation?
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