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18 hours ago, Joacim said:

My grab & go setup, and the reason I need one 😀

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I thought that that was how you transport your kit (”t” not ”d”). Ah well, a few years from now perhaps. 😉

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Lovely night here tonight😊..

First pic Orion right over our house, with Sirius lower left and Procyon upper left..

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One of the darkest nights we've had for a while, with both good transparency and seeing.

A nice two hour session which I'll report in tomorrow, the second shot below shows Trinity the Tak FS128 pointing at my last target tonight before packing up..Theta Aurigae, and a lovely split seen at c231x (9mm Morpheus and AP 2x Barlow)..IMG_20220222_210215959.thumb.jpg.47005aae399209259fa894360035bd95.jpg

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23 minutes ago, Paz said:

I had my ST120 out tonight for the first time in a long time, checking out open clusters in Perseus and Cassiopeia.

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They are great rich field scopes aren't they Paz!  May be its time to give it a place in your signature instruments list? :happy11:

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1 hour ago, mikeDnight said:

They are great rich field scopes aren't they Paz!  May be its time to give it a place in your signature instruments list? :happy11:

I have an embarrassing number of scopes so I didn't have them all on my signature! I'll update my signature for full disclosure and hope nobody notices!

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This was from Wednesday night (we've had lovely clear nights here for 3 nights this week!).

Vixen SP102 on SP mount, Altaz mount, after just splitting Sirius and the Pup at 266x (Baader Zeiss BBHS prism, BGO 6mm with WO 1.6x nosepiece and moon filter) - a memorable night!👍😊

Dave

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12 minutes ago, Froeng said:

Thank god for that light! At least your kit is safe at night!!!

Haha. It's a pain, I have bortle 4 skies apart from that light shining right into my back yard! I usually set up on the lawn behind the shed, which blocks it, but it's too soggy after all the recent rain

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The LZOS 130mm f6 ready for action, the at the end of my session around 11.30pm. I used the test AZ100 with tracking motors last night and it worked beautifully. Nice to have stable m, centred views so you can concentrate on observing.

 

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56 minutes ago, Stu said:

The LZOS 130mm f6 ready for action, the at the end of my session around 11.30pm. I used the test AZ100 with tracking motors last night and it worked beautifully. Nice to have stable m, centred views so you can concentrate on observing.

 

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Very nice Stu, I hope you had a good session. 

I am pleased that the AZ motors are going to be good .  It is 19 months now since I sold my NEQ6 to buy the AZ100  and I really do miss tracking  a target.

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2 clear nights in a row, no moon and no wind- what’s going on?!? Taking advantage of this unheard of break in the weather, while the newt is imaging NGC 2403, thought i’d bring the Tal 100rs up to the rooftop observatory and am trying in vain to split Sirius 🤣 It’s still cooling down so maybe later 🤞Lots of purple halo at the high powers needed… shame the moon’s not up 😉

Mark

 

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As said, taking every advantage of the decent setup the past few nights. Trying a different location tonight and I'm quite happy - decent horizons and away from the worst of the LP. I'm out at the moment with the 200P and the Skymax 127 - mainly to try to get the AZ GTi performing well. Haven't even touched the Mak yet as the dob has me glued to it 😁

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