happy days (or nights) sparky had his first light

[sparkyjon]

well happy tonight managed my first proper out doors first light , i only had just over an hour due to this lovely welsh weather.. but i hit my 1st light target , being a noob i made it easy and still having my leg in plaster i only wanted to be facing south.

but i got jupiter and 4 moons, plaedes and the amazing looking orion nebulas..

i have to say I'm hooked , everything about it is great , getting the scope out early for cooling, having a bit of food for warm before jumping in a sleeping bag (cant get my ankle cold) and sitting there looking up getting my night vision, then i targeted jupiter and was blown away,

I didn't manage to get perfect focus on anything but due to bad seeing and the fact i think i need to recollimate my sct as when i went in and out of focus the orb wasn't very well centred, and i couldn't be doing with allen keys in the dark screams scratched correcting lens..

cant wait till the next clear night now..

[dtr42]

well done mate orion is great to view

[sparkyjon]

it is , i also liked the plaedes that pearl string of stars dropping down is really nice to view on low mag.. and i love jupiter.

[dtr42]

you should try some of the globular clusters m35-38 as they are excellent as well andtheres good old andromeda its a big world out there [and even bigger universe ]

[skir]

Nice one. I'm still trying to sort my focussing problem out. But once I get that done hopefully I can join you in some good views. I know what you mean about the ankle the one in my cast was ok, the other one that I just strained really didn't like the cold at all though, it was quite painful by the end of the evening.

[sparkyjon]

Mine really aches in the cold my whole leg does not sure if its the plates or just the fact i have got any muscle mass after 3 months.

Anyway want be long I'll Be up the top half of my garden with a fullish 360 view of the sky in my heated obs. Lol Well a few months yet but Im sure it'll fly..