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hi isabelle. its good young people are interested in astronomy other than the ps3 and x box!! etc, this is whats wrong with the youth today they have no interests in life, i was fishing and cycling and doing all sorts of activites when i was younger, cycling still now 200 mile a week, and some astronomy when the weathers ok here in uk. has long has they were happy and interested, and keen then job done.

Hi Isabelle, i know the feeling , i live about 3 streets a way from local football ground, and when the flood lights are on its a waste of time looking south, you have my sympathies. yours paul

Hi Todd. was it easy to find, i was out last week 2 am till 3,30 am missed mars coming up, i liked your Jupiter shots nice one. yours paul

HI Isabelle it may have been the bootids showers? there on going at the moment todd has sighted them. M51 thats at and of the plough (ursa major), not seen that yet. nights are still too light here in uk, clocked ISS again last night at 10.47 between the clouds. yours paul.

HMM you have me thinking now, i have just loooked in my Patrick Moors year book 2011 and its not listed! must be a new one, check this out with picture too Will Earthbound Comet Fulfill 2012 Prophecy? : Discovery News

Hi, Isabelle, wow that was moving fast, you did well to get it, we have ISS coming over every night this week in York UK for 6 mins, @ 54 degrees when its not cloudy.

yeah it was the same here todd, just creeping up behind some trees, i was hanging out the bath room window looking south ,after ISS had gone over its over uk ever night this week wsw to east at 54 degrees for 6 mins. When its not cloudy!

No it may have been some old post? from last year!! some one has MOANED!! about and reported me to ANT, some bad languge but it was @@X@X it out!! BUSY BODIES.

well done ,you finally seen it! yeah it does go really fast. if you go on NASA web site ISS sightings it gives you exact time and what degree approach is , the higher the better if its 4 mins say? it travels slow, may get time to swing dobson on it.

Good job, well done, good post, liked the image, yours paul.

Hi Isabelle, always a daunting task, i too spent 2 hours fiddling with mine with a chesire collimator, but when you have done it a few times it is easy, i only do the main mirror now, has the secondary is usually ok. Only trouble with dobs if you are moving them about in and out the house, i think they go out of colimate, yours paul.

Hi Isabella, good post has always, skies are bad here at the moment in YORK UK, it never really gets dark at all, (our summer time now) i have been up all hours checking, but its still a tinge of blue, or full gray sky, i think we have had 2 clear night a few weeks ago and thats it. Not seen the four planets in the morning before sunrise too low on horizon here for me very disappointed, i look most mornings but skies are bad,the astronomy lark has gone on the back burner for now , roll on winter!! still pondering on another scope mind you? yours Paul.

Nice scope!! wow!! yeah i agree, with what you say, i have spent winter nights, not finding what i want to see!! very frustrating, i look on stellarium first for the stuff but never find them.I did have a goto skywatcher 130p but...... it would not go to!! froze to death in winter fiddling with it, and did not see anything!! put me right off the goto scopes. bought a dob instead. I too have limited time so yeah goto would be good, good if you can get them to work.I am still thinking of getting another one!! thinking that is!!

Try a skywatcher heritage 130 dob, portable easy to use and good viewing. £140 now or 130 if you shop around. I know some one who bought a national geographic type same thing, he has had a go with mine and said it was miles better than his.

hi Isabelle, nice video, looks well good there.

Good holiday Isabella?, look forward to some photos of Kennedy space center. hope you had a good time.

hmm no but..... i was thinking about our children's children's and what if they got date wrong it would mean next year!!. also the article says its 400 mtrs size? so how come it weights 50 million ton? some one got there sums wrong.

yeah todd is right , i found this in winter, was convinced i was looking at some think else, used stellarium to work out where i was, yeah it was a smudge, i was expecting the cigar shape!!

HI, ISABELLE, looks like my heritage same sort of spec, but yours has full length tube instead of collapsible truss. you should see Saturn ok,try the 6mm on its own then the x2 barlow for a bit more mag if the image is small ,also globular clusters should show well with the 15mm ep has i use that one a lot. yours paul.

72 hour scrub....

yeah ,just been lazy, grabbed bins for a quick look, shuttle up on friday should be worth a look.

Good blog Isabelle has always, yours paul.

hi Todd thanks for that i will have a look tonight around 10 pm, if clear? are they hard to see, what should i expect to see on my heritage 130p scope?

Isabella, if i went round to there houses and asked them to turn there lights off, i would get told to fu@k off, and probably get my head kicked in!! people dont give a sh@t here in this street, its like the Lebanon, if you know what i mean. i was going to buy a bigger scope but no chance of that round here it would probably get nicked out the shed.

HI Isabelle, yeah i tried out side, but the light pollution is terrible near my garden, there were halogens lights on all over the place! oh and some one with a 40 inch plus tv distracting me flashing away. Saturn was better in my dark kitchen. Even tried the sky watcher light pollution filter out side but no difference . some nights i have to hang blankets on the clothes line to block the light from neighbors gardens.