What did the postman bring?

[DaveS]

Just arrived today

A set of ZWO LRGB filters from Autie Flo, via postie and a TS 0.79 reducer and spacers (And a packet of Haribos) from TS via DPD.

Now to set up my Megrez 90 and Asi 1600 for Markarian's Chain.

 

[DRT]

Happy Birthday to me...

[Helen]

Happy Birthday Derek 

[DRT]

1 hour ago, Helen said:

Happy Birthday Derek 

Thanks, Helen. 

 

[Knighty2112]

14 hours ago, DRT said:

Happy Birthday to me...

Happy birthday Derek. You'll love the Skyfi USB. I have Skyportal wifi for my 6/8SE got mount, and control it with Skysafari Pro. It works a treat, and it is so easy to select an object to view, and also control the mount too. Enjoy your new toys!  

Edited March 31, 2017 by Knighty2112

[johnfosteruk]

One of these. Yesterday. Happy. 

[Paul73]

Oooo. Haven't seen a Lacerta wedge before. I wonder how it will perform against the ubiquitous Lunt.

Paul

 

[johnfosteruk]

11 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

I wonder how it will perform against the ubiquitous Lunt

 

Well is the answer. See

and

 

[Knighty2112]

To make it easier to carry out my long Altair Astro f11 Starwave 102mm 'frac to observe with I splurged out for the official carry handle to go with it, which arrived about 30mins ago.  

Part 2 of what the postie brings arrives tomorrow from Amazon!  

[Knighty2112]

 

Part 2: 

The postie was busy today with more Astro goodies coming in the mail. First up was a book from Amazon on Astro sketching (which I hope to start to do soon), next some Astro gloves, then a Baader Genuine Orthoscopic 7mm EP (thanks Grumpy Martian), and finally some cables for my 6/8SE Goto mount I got off Parallaxerr a few weeks back. That will keep me going for a day or two until more Astro goodies arrive next week! Hehe!  

 

 

Edited April 1, 2017 by Knighty2112

[Mognet]

All the way from Aunt FLO, a 32mm Panaview. Hoping there won't be a cloud penalty for this!

Didn't realise how big these get

[cloudsweeper]

Nothing like new glassware to raise the level of excitement!

And I like that mug.

Doug.

[Mognet]

6 hours ago, cloudsweeper said:

Nothing like new glassware to raise the level of excitement!

And I like that mug.

Doug.

I'm itching to use it, but it seems I'm paying a cloud penalty now! Perhaps along with the specs of an item suppliers should now include an estimate of the cloud penalty incurred by purchasing, measured in nights and miles.

It's a good mug. My other office favourite says "Another 8 hours of pretending to work"

[David Smith]

8 hours ago, Mognet said:

All the way from Aunt FLO, a 32mm Panaview. Hoping there won't be a cloud penalty for this!

Didn't realise how big these get

Never mind the eyepiece, I want one of those mugs

[Alien 13]

32 minutes ago, David Smith said:

Never mind the eyepiece, I want one of those mugs

Me too 

Alan

[DRT]

1 hour ago, David Smith said:

Never mind the eyepiece, I want one of those mugs

I could do with 250 of those to give as gifts to everyone in our IT department  

[Knighty2112]

Looks like Amazon do them, so I'll tell 'em to expect a rush on them!  

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Raven-Design-Problem-Solving/dp/B01JZLEW08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491438076&sr=8-1&keywords=joke+flowchart+mugs

[Knighty2112]

Part III (starting to sound like episodes from Star Wars now! Hehe!  );

Some 20x80 Celestron Skymaster binoculars bought of Chris on here (many thanks Chris ) and arrived this morning by Parcelforce. Also, about an hour later I got the ridiculously blooming expensive bracket from Orion which is the unimpressive small black bar under the binocular silver securing bar) to allow me to fit the new binos to my Orion binocular mount, so hoping the forecasted good weather for clear skies for the next three nights materialise to be able to use them!

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by Knighty2112

[Tonynexevo925]

Today he brought me a parcel...

[Tonynexevo925]

The parcel was very securely packed and wrapped ? ???

[Tonynexevo925]

I needed a coffee break after opening all that ☕️

[Knighty2112]

5 minutes ago, Tonynexevo925 said:

The parcel was very securely packed and wrapped ? ???

And? ???

[Tonynexevo925]

Well I hope I haven't jinxed the weather at the weekend...

big glass ?

[Knighty2112]

Just now, Tonynexevo925 said:

Well I hope I haven't jinxed the weather at the weekend...

big glass ?

 Nice! Bet those two purchases put a big dint in your finances!  

[domstar]

Not really the postman-more like two and a half hours on the train, half an hour at the station looking for a man with a blue baseball cap and two and a half hours back again but I'm thrilled nonetheless. Apparently, he'd got two of them for Christmas (I should've asked if his family wanted to adopt me). Thanks David.