mr saddo

yeah, it was aright sight they reckon its space junk now and not a meteor, has i suspected anyway.

yeah not too bad now with the pipe over and loads mor concreate in.

yep ive just done this, and behind the conifers there is a halogen light coming on and off!!! not happy. and a told you so off the wife!!

yeah it want the level i was worried about ,but the stability of the stack of bricks that high. and all that weight on it.

i got up at 11.30 till 1.30, saw one at 17 mins past 12 a right fire ball streaking thought the great square of pegasus, wow i was impressed!!! and another 3 small flashes, first time for meteor showers seen for me, usuall the weather cloudy or raining here in york, it was quite a clear night, layed on patio with sky masters binoes.

ahh right sounds about same here for me in uk with the garden lights and all. they really peee off, some how the deep sky stuff may be not seen in the city.

Had scope out last night evostar 120 eq5 (left avatar) 1st viewing, clear night for a change, the moon was blearing!! coming up in the east, i sneaked out of house at 11.00pm dragged the eq5 out on to the launch pad, got the scope on with a bit of fumbling on the dove tail!! had a go on Cassiopeia high in east, double cluster ngc 957 and....wow always impresses me this, took a while to orientate it though the up side down finder scope!! which was awkward to look though has the star diagonal was in the way had to keep moving it on the locking collar, so i could get my head in. had a go at m1o1 above pan handle but still not seen, even had the galaxy ace phone up with google star map, which is very good and accurate. no luck. looked at perseus which always reminds me of a saxaphone (not tonight though! and then up to auriga, hoping for m37 38 but too low in sky obscured by a tree, had a go on moon wow it was blinding though the evo, out with moon filter, and.......the wow factor really crisp and sharp good detail, still a bit blinding though. by this time it was 1pm and i was tired and fumbling around dropping things now, the £20 light pollution filter ended up in the grass, found that so decided to pack up, took me nearly half hour to put the scope away and other stuff. and crawed off in too my warm bed.

i have decided to build a pier for the lump!! so watch this space!! a brick job might be the thing.

very nice,sending clear nights to you!!!

thanks, not used it yet, every time i get up early its cloudy or raining.

Is that a 150mm, nice scope

no 120mm, about 4 3/4 inch not quite 5 inch :(

nice composition.

yeah it does fit with, a bit of room to spare!! camera angle, looks small.

could do with a few power outage here in uk, the local council reckons there gona turn off the street lights to save money, bring it on i say.

yeah i made a filter £22 for the foil, managed to grab some images from live online via norway.where now in summer here and the nights are light till well after 11pm. always cloudy!!

did you get the e-mail from telescope house offering 10% over the bank holiday, what a joke, read this, this was the e-mail they were sending to customers,

yep total cloud, watched on line back to bed!!

yeah, we seem to miss all the good events in uk, either there on the horizon out of view or the weather is poor. i have not yet seen any of the meteor showers due to poor weather.

well i am geared up camera on scope, tested yesterday on sun for iso and shutter speed, but....could be a wash out here, heavy rain forecast here!!

hi Isabelle, good job well jealous,i have canon eos 300d and still cant get Saturn not on a still image that is. Some one on here had a trick of putting the camera in a tube so the lens move freely, then puting the tube in to focuser or, barlow to get the mag for bigger image,i was looking at a sony compact other day 15mp ccd chip, video option, £89 ish. your getting better at this now isabelle. yours paul.

ah ,i have some solar film coming tomorrow, i need to mount it on some think for my mak 90. Bit of head scratching, need some sort of drum 104mm to slip over the ota.

yeah ,i had to enlage mine up a bit, hence a bit pixel. using adobe photo shop, the image was small, and that was with mak 90 with x2 barlow on t ring on eos 300d.

hmm yeah priced them up well expensive!

hi Isabelle, yeah did not look that good, on the 5th here in uk, but last night 6th it was really quite big here very orange, i have seen a Pic on Facebook in Athens and it was massive!

hi, good read. interesting.

hi, yeah i would have been happy with you picture, and what i spent on the camera i could have had a compact 15 mp ccd for less than i paid for the eos!! i did research on the old eos and people seemed to plug them, so i got one. the camera is usable for every day photography so will not go to waste.