JB80

Classic Shell is your friend

I may have to, 8 is starting to wear thin on me.

I cracked and have Classic Shell now, it helps but I still don't like where it puts my uploaded pictures off the sd card.

Probably your best bet is the Equinox 66mm..

That's the thing, I was originally thinking a Borg 50, then got caught up with the Starwave and now I have found a nice little Baader 66.

I get sidetracked too easily. :D

LOL

Cheers!

Well done jarrod

Congrats, Jarrod :D Well deserved, a classy disc. Always look forward to your images. Oh yes, we're all dipping in the pools here in the UK cough cough. Actually, it's half decent today, I'd almost dip a toe in the sea :D

To be honest Ant I didn't do anything, firecapture would read the camera but wasn't running it so I turned it all off and when I started again in the evening it was all fine. I still don't know what was the problem but a restart fixed it for me.

Mmmm think mines a little more terminal than that. Tried restore point, reinstalling drivers and software, ccleaner. Glad your sorted though :)

Hope you can sort it out soon, sorry I can't be of much help.

Ta Luke! Well it cleared up here a bit this morning after some rain, I got a mosaic in but we will see if that turns out. Hopefully after next week when it clears up we will be back at the lovely spring temps getting a tan again.

Hope you're right, Jarrod :-) I'm getting fed up with this. I've had two night sessions and two Sun sessions this month and February wasn't much better :-)

Hope so too, it can't be any worse.

Hate mail! .... lol

Its probably looking for somewhere to chill out for a while.

we get the odd adder in the garden late springtime when the males are looking for mates,thay seam to do a dance when two males meet,my dogs keep well away from them thay must know thay have a nasty bite.

I can provide a nice recipe.....

Decided to fire up the bbq, roast beef or chicken?

snowing here

Brrr, I actually miss that. Always liked snow!

My wife will be working in Alicante so to start with somewhere 10-20 minutess away, maybe near Elche or El Campello. We have a heap of places to see so far, we don't really want to be in the middle of a city, once we have settled we will look to move a bit further out.

Lovely, maybe if funds are good an apartment with garden might be found, but I'd seriously not worry about that. If you've a car, you've got some amazing dark sites and natural parks dotted all over the place.

We are looking at villas with either a big yard or nice view but it's hard to tell until we actually see them in person. In July when we move proper we will have the car with us so as you say I think some trips may be in order.

Colchester ? http://www.neas.me.uk/starfest/

You never know there may be demonstrations outside the BBC if things don't pick up..;)

Well I'm not even sure I'll be going but something has come up and we might be in London for a weekend in November. Would of been nice if there was an astro fair or something.

I'm nearly certain it's a construction site but I need to check out exactly where though, odd seeing as they are not allowed to work at night.

It is a joke, it's bad enough here as is, normally the sky is orange so I was surprised to see the blue cast.

It really is a joke! I live in Birmingham but in my garden the LP isn't so bad as I'm facing away from the city center but I guess there will be no escaping the LP soon. Saying that....I've read that these new LED street lamps they're installing will reduce LP by around 25%....lets hope they HURRY UP!

Well I located where it is coming from I think but couldn't find a company name on the outside of the place, I'll give them a week and then report them to whoever I have to.

Well, 1 Perseid and that was all, nothing on camera I think either.

That is one more than me, Jarrod! Forecast went downhill for us, it was looking good at one stage, moon tucked out the way for later as well! Hoping for some weekend Sol now, just rain and rain here Thurs and Fri! Look forward to you being back in business. Hope all has gone well!

I saw two the night after but dozed off towards the end. Things have gone pretty good with the move, messy but good. Looks like cloud and downpours though this weekend.

Cheers guys! That is true Gutross, I actually think the LP may be a bit better there. Time will tell.

Thanks Jules, glad you have settled in now. It's a bit chaotic at the moment here but I think we are on track. Not panicking just yet.

whats the problem then mate?

Wohoo, what a day! Congrats and good luck for completion. Lucky No. 7 hopefully.

Congrats!

Thanks Luke and Amra. We are at the point now if we pull out we lose our deposit and if the sellers do they pay us double so I'm certain it will happen now.

Missed the occultation itself but just caught both in the same FOV which is a first for me.

Went to the beach yesterday, but saw the sunset :-)

Not a bad way to spend the evening, can't beat a sunset.What is the water like? Thinking about taking the kids.

Actually it may be a bit better here now, not sure if I can muster up the strength though.

I think he uses The Force. Either that, or he's on a secret Moon base :) Good luck if you go for it this afternoon, I might try 20 minutes on the Moon later if it clears, I just can't face these fast moving clouds again for solar imaging!! :-o

Think I'm going to pass now, I have be meaning to catch the Moon since my successful test with the DMK the other night but conditions have been poor since.

HP is out, I don't like the one we have.

I think you probably need a family standard machine. They're powerful enough these days and can do all you want if you're not planning on running software like 3D Max, Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time :)

Yeah, nothing too fancy. I figure either equal to or more than the current specs I have which is 6GB or ram and two 750 HDs, although I may have to not go 1.5TB

I wonder if it means ep tray? Maybe it's a translation of light bucket.>:)

Not sure, some of the products don't have them.

Check on this page for what I mean.

Fish Basket Sen.

http://global.rakuten.com/en/search?pf=&pt=&f=0&fs=0&vm=2&sm=0&st=&tl=211742&k=telescopes

Mmm, :D no idea!

Those vixen lvw are a good deal from there but I guess I'd get caught on import duty.

Clouds and more clouds here too. Yesterday around 2pm I could at least make out where the Sun was :D You've been doing some cracking shots Jarrod, hope the seeing improves soon!

Cheers guys, cloudy would of made me grumpy too.

lol, now it's cloudy.

Today and tonight would be a good one to test the mak out for both. Conditions here are very good atm.

Excellent day isn't it, Jarrod :-) I went up in t-shirt and came down sweating. My girlfriend's away this weekend, so I'm having a perfect day of doing nothing but planning a session, viewing the Sun, collimating the dob etc. Suppose I ought to wash the dishes but I'm alergic to water :-)

Yep, it's gorgeous! The in-laws are here so it's a good excuse to get outside.

Have a look at the Jetstream: One arm right up the centre of the UK, another bigger one right over Alicante.

Yeah it seems to have parked over us for the week. Like David I have chucked a heap of data this week.

Yikes, I was keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow! :D

It gets pretty windy round here at times. Destroys anything not tied down. Not so much rain though.

There's also a vicious wind up this end, but surprisingly it isn't in action today. I don't mind the clouds, rain but I hate the wind. I seriously take it quite personally :-)

I'm starting to feel that way too, the poor old 150PL is wobbling away like crazy.

Depends where you are viewing from in Bilbao. Probably the same as me, about 4, but head out just a weee bit and you'll be even better.

Thanks for the link, I'm just getting a bit stir crazy and was wondering what it would be like if we moved there(not that we are atm). It can't be any worse than Brussels.

That is finished images, I'd hate to think how many went into all of them.

With the vast number of weather complaints, how have you managed more then 1 for each day of the year?

The weather is a touch better down in Spain plus the majority has been solar in both white light and Ha. It's a record of some sort for me though.

Hard work all this solar imaging ain't it.

I think your rain has come here, Jarrod :-o I am bracing myself for a tough summer solar period, sun tan lotion, sunglasses, cold drinks, baseball caps, but you do what ya gotta do :D

Hard life aint it. :D At one point they were saying tomorrow was going to be 31°c here but that has been revised to a brisk 26° now.

Found it! 'twas in a box.

I have been looking for that all week.

Was the box in the fridge..:)

No, I think that is what threw me off the trail.