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23 minutes ago, Franklin said:

Your Parka looks very stylish! We all got sent to school during Winter in the 1970's wearing this hideous outfit and bright orange on the inside!

Did your school have a music practice room?
It's not hideous, it's lovely. Would I lie to you?

(Sorry to anyone that 'gets it' .... 🚪)

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3 hours ago, Franklin said:

Your Parka looks very stylish! We all got sent to school during Winter in the 1970's wearing this hideous outfit and bright orange on the inside!

 

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Haha I'm glad you think so, it cost me enough 😂 I have had it quite a while now and it is still in great condition, though that's probably because it needs to be like -15 degrees before you can wear the thing!

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It was the first outreach evening of the winter season for my club, at a local school.

The 4" achro doesn't get much use at home, but it's the one I usually take to outreach.  The weather didn't look promising while we were setting up, but at least the low cloud was scudding across rapidly enough that no-one needed to wait too long for a gap.  I'd planned to shoot for some wider targets that better suited the short scope, but with the prevailing cloud I ended up alternating between Jupiter and Saturn instead.  The achro did OK on these, with an ES 6.7mm giving a modest x90, and a Baader semi-apo filter taking out most of the violet.  After a while the low cloud cleared up a little, and everyone got to see a few sights that impressed them.  I finished off with Albireo for the stragglers, with the colour contrast rendered very pleasingly by the Bresser. 

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It was the first outreach evening of the winter season for my club, at a local school.

The 4" achro doesn't get much use at home, but it's the one I usually take to outreach.  The weather didn't look promising while we were setting up, but at least the low cloud was scudding across rapidly enough that no-one needed to wait too long for a gap.  I'd planned to shoot for some wider targets that better suited the short scope, but with the prevailing cloud I ended up alternating between Jupiter and Saturn instead.  The achro did OK on these, with an ES 6.7mm giving a modest x90, and a Baader semi-apo filter taking out most of the violet.  After a while the low cloud cleared up a little, and everyone got to see a few sights that impressed them.  I finished off with Albireo for the stragglers, with the colour contrast rendered very pleasingly by the Bresser. 

Glad it went well Paul, sorry I couldn’t make it.

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Braving the cold tonight with the 150 Maksutov waiting for Jupiter to reach a higher elevation and the GRS to be roughly centered. Seeing was poor all night with the stars twinkling away which just emphasises this. Went ahead anyway hoping for a steady patch but I wasn’t holding my breath. My fingers were numb and I was struggling to change to an IR pass filter. I’m surprised I lasted this long.

 

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30 minutes ago, SwiMatt said:

Never! Snow is life 😛

i forget what my Finnish colleagues call snow - not the snow itself per se but something about its affect on bouncing light around once it arrives in the darkest winter months. Do you have a similar saying/concept in Sweden?

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2 hours ago, josefk said:

i forget what my Finnish colleagues call snow - not the snow itself per se but something about its affect on bouncing light around once it arrives in the darkest winter months. Do you have a similar saying/concept in Sweden?

Not being Swedish myself, I never heard of it... here they call snow when it snows, like normal humans 🤣

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