Hi from North Bristol!

[robbymain]

Hi all

 

Returning to the realm of the telescope after many years away! Live in a highly urban location (complete with neighbours who love uneccessarily bright garden lights) so looking for some dark sky suggestions and like minded folk to observe with ?

Any members of BAS on here?!

 

cheers,

 

Rob

 

[John]

Hi Rob,

I've been a member of BAS for 3 years now. Good society - I've really enjoyed it !

We have a small observatory sited at Failand under reasonably good skies.

I've been in the hobby for 30+ years here at Portishead so not far from yourself.

Welcome to the Stargazers Lounge and welcome back to astronomy 

John

[PeterCPC]

Hello Rob and welcome.

Peter

[laudropb]

Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL.

[rwilkey]

Hi Rob, welcome from me in Swindon, just down the road from you!

[Floater]

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun with the hobby and the forum.

[des anderson]

A warm welcome from Essex. Des

[Dr_Ju_ju]

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

btw, isn't north Bristol -  Gloucester   .....

[sloz1664]

Hi Rob and a very warm welcome to the Lounge

Steve

[Demonperformer]

Hi, Rob, and welcome to SGL.

Many here find LP to be the curse of their existence. Unfortunately, that is just the way things are nowadays. Hope you find a suitable location.

Enjoy the journey.

[Mr Spock]

Hi Rob, welcome to SGL

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi Rob, welcome. 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire ?

[robbymain]

Many thank for all the warm welcomes! I look forward to meeting some of you in future ?

 

[Sunshine]

Welcome to SGL!

[mcinek82]

Hi Rob ? Welcome to the forum. I hope You can learn new things here and share Your knowledge to teach others.

Marcin, Poland

[Bovski]

Welcome aboard. 

[Nyctimene]

On 02/07/2018 at 11:04, robbymain said:

so looking for some dark sky suggestions

Welcome, Rob, to this friendly forum from a German stargazer (visual only)!

Just in case you haven't already found this:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=10&lat=6701960&lon=-288505&layers=B0FFTFFFFF

All these maps showing light pollution have their limitations, but are helpful as a first guidance. You can (in the toggle menu) enable "SQM/SQC overlay and filters" to get the more precise SQM/SQM-L values for some dark sky places.

Hope this helps; welcome back to the hobby/way of life, and enjoy!

Stephan

[robbymain]

Thanks for the further welcomes and for the light pollution map link from Stephan @Nyctimene!

[Maxbem]

Hi Robby, 

Also just north of Bristol, completely new to it. Looking forward to learning lots.

Max

[pandoraefretum]

Hi Rob,

I'm also in Bristol
Let's go to Exmoor for dark skies !

Cheers, Roland

[ronl]

Hello Rob, welcome to SGL, see you around the forums.

Clear Sky's.