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Hi All,

My name's Dave, I live in Coventry and have just bought my first telescope; a Skywatcher 200p with EQ5 mount and SynScan. I stumbled across this site while researching what to buy and realised that it was such a gold mine that I had to join.

Wishing you all a happy new year and hopefully a break in the clouds sometime soon.

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Hello, and a big welcome to SGL from me too.

I wonder if you live in the next street? :) Actually there's a few of us here in Cov.

Certainly up against it in light pollution terms in Coventry, but come April when Warwickshire Council turn off 80% of the streetlights after 12am it should get a bit darker towards the southern horizon.

Cheers

Tim

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Hi Dave and welcome to the forum. Congratulations on your recent purchases which will certainly keep you busy for some time ahead. If you haven't done so already, I would recommend downloading a free piece of planetarium software called Stellarium which you can view here. Lots of great features to help you find and identify found objects. It can be configured to produce an identical night sky to that seen from your viewing location and has a nice advance date/time facility to help work out what is coming up later on in order to help you plan your observing sessions. You can also decide on how the simulated sky appears to you (constellation labels, cardinal lines etc) which is very useful in helping you learn the night sky and to remember where everything is - very useful when the clouds come in! :grin:

Clear skies for now and enjoy the forum

James

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