W/C 4th November

[swamp thing]

Hi All.

Unfortunately I'm busy tonight (this will probably be the only clear night this week ).

Hope some of you can get out and meet up.

[Rustysplit]

See you next time Steve.

I am gonna go out tonight, probably RC. Anyone else about?

[hobsey]

Not sure yet, I maybe up a bit later.

Will bring the 127slt this time.

[hobsey]

I will be going up as I have just been messing around with the scope so its made me want to go out and play.

Alan, what time are you heading up?

[Rustysplit]

Hi Anthony,

I am gonna go up for about 7.45 ish. See you later. If you see my car but not me, I may be through on the grass with the ST80 having a quick look about. Blue renault btw.

[hobsey]

Ok, I will be leaving here at 7.30 so will be there for about 8.

[Rustysplit]

Hobsey, Optical Dob and myself made it up there last night. Sky was pretty good,possibly a little better than last week. Hobsey managed to bag Uranus, Neptune and Jupiter in his mak. Finally had to call a halt at about 11pm as cloud was coming in.

[hobsey]

Yep, was a successful evening once I had sorted my power problems.

Was a bit windy making the scope shake on the AZ mount. Must find a way to modify it to prevent in from shaking.

[Rustysplit]

If you can rig up a sling that hangs from each leg to hold your powerpack, I reckon that would do it nicely mate.

[hobsey]

I will be giving that ago at some point but its actually the OTA that shakes as it is only support on one side. If it had a fork mount like some of the Meade ones that is supported on both sides it would eliminate the shaking.

I'm hoping that once I have mounted the ST80 on top of it, the extra weight will help.

[Optical Dob]

Good to see you last night looked  very clear. Thanks Alan for pointing out all those Objects, M15 & the garnet star were the highlights for me. Thats a great  scope you have Anthony, so much power from such a small tube. It can get very windy up there, some people hang weights from the centre of the tripod from the eyepiece holder.