UKDiver

2023? That's planning ahead!

Oh very good.

It was not my talk. Have you taken your points up with the Space Centre?

Strike! Right, now to hide all the packaging! 😄

I like the top one without the stars. More like a painting. I also like the Horsehead shown as a small part of a much greater whole, rather than be an image subject alone.

Wow Mike, what a story. Lows, highs and a early relationship temporary parting. A (labour of) love with a happy ending... I can only imaging what the 3.5 XW may do for it - and I'm probably wrong. Hopefully I might see it one day and night. Adrian

Thank you everyone. I do have a UHC filter, but did not use it on the basis that I was not expecting it to bring much out of what appeared to be nothing at all. Next time.

RUN!

Tell him that when he has his own garden, then he can decide what goes in it. 😄

Thank you. I think I need to sell my erroneous purchases before further larger purchases, my wife keeps commenting about the large boxes that keep appearing.

I've nothing to suggest - still at the early learning stages myself.

Were you comparing the two eyepieces under the same conditions? I've had varying results with the same EP on different nights. Tonight was terrible for me.

Getting there. FC-100DC on Scopetech Zero and Vixen APP-TL130. Not convinced about tripod, takes a while to settle down, but nothing to compare against for its weight. Happy to carry this in one go, unlike the Skytee and SW tripod.

Evening all, First night out since early December, weather has been grim and so has my back. So, as it was nice and bright, I spend quite a while looking at the moon. Jupiter was very hazy, so next was the challenge to myself... M42 was not obvious with a Vixen SLV 25mm on FC-100DC, no filters. It was getting a little misty by the time Orion was high enough to clear nearby houses and trees. About 19:00. Light pollution map shows Bortle 5, I expect it's worse given property developments since the LP data date. Am I being unreasonable in expecting to see any evidence of M42 under those conditions? For comparison, when I've seen it, M31 is a faint smudge. Adrian

If you've no restored and verified, it still does not exist.

Won't that find 11C 101C etc?

Being close to FLO is not currently an advantage. They're not allowing visitors at the moment. They were just starting to allow customer collections prior to Omicron, which knocked that idea back pretty sharply, which is fair enough.

If you're happy with batch files and shell scripts, surely Powershell will make you feel right at home. VS Code for the IDE, you can run multiple languages with that.

I've mostly been buying my kit second hand. I've made a couple of mistakes along the way, but at least the financial impact is not as great as buying new and selling on second hand. Flip side is I have had to re-tap a tripod leg clamp that was stripped, but that's the only fault I've had to cope with.

Yes, sass us hoopy froods who know where our towels are. Adrian

And those never stick. Oh no. Still, got to fill that air time. Can't have silence.

Looks unused! Much as my kit last year. 1 dive!

A scope and a drink, not necessarily a good idea.

In one of the movie shots, a gantry seen in the background is the crane the ship hangs from. One of my childhood favourite sci-fi movies.

That's about 2/3 of ours, although I don't have to travel far up to the moors (wet hills) to get double the rainfall. Shows how important the rainfall spread is.