What did the postman bring?

[F15Rules]

22 hours ago, SuburbanMak said:

Mine has been a very busy postman, bringing me an AZGTiX mount to realise my long held ambition to run the widefield ST80 alongside my Mak 127, a Berlebach Charon observing chair and (incredibly excitingly!) a pair of Canon 10x42 IS Binoculars. 
All of which pretty much guaranteed a cloudy weekend, sorry about that guys. Fingers crossed for a window tomorrow night however…

What a haul, @SuburbanMak😊..

Tell me, will the Divorce be amicable, do you think??😂😂

Dave

[Space Hopper]

A Handle. We like handles on here, don't we....?? 😀

Nice secondhand purchase, and it will compliment the Berlebach tripod nicely.

I just need a scope to go with it now, but thats another story.....

 

 

[SuburbanMak]

43 minutes ago, F15Rules said:

What a haul, @SuburbanMak😊..

Tell me, will the Divorce be amicable, do you think??😂😂

Dave

Actually the lovely Kathy has no problem with my obsessions & after 30 years of marriage they don't come as a surprise!    tbh I think she's still relieved I got rid of my MGB a few years ago, now that WAS a money pit  

 

[Pixies]

Just arrived from Japan:

[HollyHound]

On 29/01/2023 at 14:51, SuburbanMak said:

and (incredibly excitingly!) a pair of Canon 10x42 IS Binoculars

Nice one... You will love stabilised binoculars 😀

[SuburbanMak]

4 minutes ago, HollyHound said:

Nice one... You will love stabilised binoculars 😀

Thanks - I just grabbed 5 minutes on the moon with them between meetings, WOW! 

[bosun21]

Just a quick necessary delivery for the cold nights. Peter Storm top and bottoms delivered by the postie.

[PeterC65]

8 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

Just a quick necessary delivery for the cold nights. Peter Storm top and bottoms delivered by the postie.

Mine work a treat. Nice and toasty, but my brain does seem to slow down in the cold after about 2 hours!

[bosun21]

Just now, PeterC65 said:

Mine work a treat. Nice and toasty, but my brain does seem to slow down in the cold after about 2 hours!

I can usually push it to about 3 before the brain fog starts.

[F15Rules]

15 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

Just a quick necessary delivery for the cold nights. Peter Storm top and bottoms delivered by the postie.

Brilliant!

And, staying with the "Keeping warm while Observing" theme, we've been shopping in Lincoln today, and my wife treated me to these, saying.                         "to stop you freezing me to death when you come to bed after watching Orion for 2 hours!!" 😂😂

Dave

Edited January 30, 2023 by F15Rules

[SuburbanMak]

16 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

I can usually push it to about 3 before the brain fog starts.

I really noticed this a couple of sessions ago after a long and very cold session on the comet up on the Downs, was a real effort to figure out how to break the mount down and get it all back in the backpack. Is I believe the earliest sign of developing Hypothermia  

[RobertI]

On 29/01/2023 at 14:51, SuburbanMak said:

Mine has been a very busy postman, bringing me an AZGTiX mount to realise my long held ambition to run the widefield ST80 alongside my Mak 127, a Berlebach Charon observing chair and (incredibly excitingly!) a pair of Canon 10x42 IS Binoculars. 
All of which pretty much guaranteed a cloudy weekend, sorry about that guys. Fingers crossed for a window tomorrow night however…

Your dob looks like it’s sulking in the corner. 

[Stu]

This arrived today, very solid bit of kit it is too. It’s an ADM Maxguider to allow me to align scopes on my AZ100 more accurately. Seems to work very well.

[bosun21]

On 30/01/2023 at 18:36, Stu said:

This arrived today, very solid bit of kit it is too. It’s an ADM Maxguider to allow me to align scopes on my AZ100 more accurately. Seems to work very well.

NICE!!

[JeremyS]

9 hours ago, Space Hopper said:

A Handle. We like handles on here, don't we....?? 😀

Nice secondhand purchase, and it will compliment the Berlebach tripod nicely.

I just need a scope to go with it now, but thats another story.....

 

 

When you’ve got a Berlebach handle like that, who needs a telescope?
 

You realise I’m not going to get to sleep tonight now, don’t you?

[SuburbanMak]

19 hours ago, RobertI said:

Your dob looks like it’s sulking in the corner. 

It’s just biding it’s time waiting for spring galaxies and summer globs… 

Part of the rationale for stumping up for the chair is to get more use out of the Dob with a few less contortions - so hopefully it’s not feeling too left out. 

[bomberbaz]

Who doesn't love a bit of green, well plus white, oh and black with silver!

[mikeDnight]

On 30/01/2023 at 18:04, F15Rules said:

Brilliant!

And, staying with the "Keeping warm while Observing" theme, we've been shopping in Lincoln today, and my wife treated me to these, saying.                         "to stop you freezing me to death when you come to bed after watching Orion for 2 hours!!" 😂😂

Dave

So you decided against modelling them for us Dave?

 

[F15Rules]

24 minutes ago, mikeDnight said:

So you decided against modelling them for us Dave?

 

Too bloomin right I did!!😱😂

Dave

[wookie1965]

Well I was due a Altair 2" to 1.25" self centering adapter but it has been sent to another Paul Lewis in Shropshire, good job we have honest people on here as he has contacted me the adapter is getting picked up tomorrow and delivered back to me hopefully Thursday.

 

[bosun21]

After three failed attempts of fabricating a dew shield for my new 12” dobsonian, I gave up due to the foam wilting out of shape. So I took the hit and bought the Meade 14”-16 flexible flocked dew shield. The actual tube on the dobsonian is 14” diameter. £115 for a dew shield pained me, but it was needed.

[bosun21]

Thanks for the felt underlay @Ratlet but the diameter caused it to droop badly. It was appreciated.

[bosun21]

7 hours ago, bomberbaz said:

Who doesn't love a bit of green, well plus white, oh and black with silver!

They will complement each other well.

[wookie1965]

Finally turned up thanks to "Shropshire lad" 

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by wookie1965

[GeoffM54]

The postman brought me this today  Well pleased.  Just need my new scope and I can start doing some serious learning.