Hello from Rotherham

[PhotonAbsorber]

Signed up a couple of weeks ago or so.  Thought I'd say hello. 

I've just replaced the roof on my home observatory and I'm eagerly awaiting a clear night to get some observing in.

 

[Floater]

Glad you said hello. Welcome.

Hope you have fun with the forum and, of course, we all hope for clear skies. ?

[gtis]

Welcome to the forum from just up the road in Darfield 

[Dave S]

And Rother Valley Optics on your doorstep. Nice!!

[cletrac1922]

Welcome from land down under

Hope new roof on your dome works well

Cheers

John

 

[westmarch]

Hi there,

welcome to the forum. Hope your roof survived storm Brian. 

John

[Dave In Vermont]

Hello there, PA, and welcome to SGL - it's good to have you aboard!

We love questions and finding their answers here, so always feel free to ask yours and supply answers, too.

Here's hoping for starry skies -

Dave

 

[ronl]

Hello and welcome to the community, hope you enjoy your time with us,

regarding the weather, we could all do with some starry sky's.

[PhotonAbsorber]

@Floater About 2hrs after starting this topic the clouds cleared and I got outside to use my scope (probably first time in about a year... ).  Need to get used to working in low red light.  Had a great time looking at M45 and I've got a list of things I need to do to make future viewing more of a pleasure including briefing new neighbors (house opposite) who were out having a vape/smoke and might have been wondering what a bloke with a red head torch was doing fumbling around in his shed. 

@gtis Nice to know there's someone close by; are you a member of MSAS? I was for about a year but then stopped because my work pattern changed and although I could have fraught it they didn't do much practical work although some of the talks were good.

@Dave S Yeah that's where I bought my scope from and a few accessories.

@cletrac1922 Yeah it's working ok - I changed the roof because it was too heavy; the shed I bought was marketed as a Security Shed and it is really quite sturdy but what comes with that is the weight, including the roof.  I built the new roof (quite proud of that because for someone like me that knows as much about joinery as I do about hand gliding it's quite an achievement) and it fits really well slides on and off much easier than the original one.

@westmarch It did, got a couple of bolts the stop it from moving - that said I think us in tropical-south yorkshire didn't feel the full force of Brian, the penines do a great job of sheilding us 

@Dave In Vermont Thanks will do

[PhotonAbsorber]

@ronl I've been waiting for about 3 weeks but glad I got the chance last night.

[ronl]

It's been cloudy here for a while now, we can live in hope.

See you around the forums.

Clear Sky's.

[hippie]

Welcome to SGL. 

[Dr_Ju_ju]

Hi,

Welcome to the Lounge, wishing you clear skies...

[JamesM]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Clear skies

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome.

Peter

[gtis]

8 hours ago, PhotonAbsorber said:

@gtis Nice to know there's someone close by; are you a member of MSAS? I was for about a year but then stopped because my work pattern changed and although I could have fraught it they didn't do much practical work although some of the talks were good.

No I am member of WADAS

http://www.wakefieldastronomysociety.co.uk/

[Mr Spock]

Hi, welcome to SGL from sunny Sheffield 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire  

[TSRobot]

Welcome and lucky u for being so well served by a local astro shop :-) Can somebody please open an actual astro shop in the west midlands please?:-o

[RichLD]

Another hello from Sheffield, welcome aboard!

[MBJ]

welcome....fellow rotherhamite here .

[Neilsermk1]

Hi welcome, wishing you clear skies

 

 

[Sky-J]

Hi, welcome and nice to meet you. Would love to see a pic of your observatory (Suitably jealous).

Jeremy

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi there, welcome. 

[Charon]

Hi from me too.