New member from Southampton

[Adam1234]

Hi all, I've just joined this forum and I'm quite new to astronomy. I've just bought the Sky-Watcher Skyliner 250PX Flextube dobsonian telescope.

Anyone else from Southampton around on here?

 

Adam

 

 

 

[ronl]

Hello Adam, and welcome to the community, good choice of scope, you will get many years

of enjoyment from it, I am sure there are folk from your area here, see you around the forums.

Clear Sky's.

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi Adam, welcome. 

[banjaxed]

Hi Adam, welcome to SGL from NW England.

[sloz1664]

Hi Adam, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge

Steve

[Geoff Barnes]

Welcome Adam, I grew up in Bassett and ended up in Nursling via Eastleigh, whereabouts are you?

Been in Melbourne Oz since 2006.

There are at least two other members on the forum from Southampton that I know of.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Geoff Barnes

[laudropb]

Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL.

[Panda Alvin]

Hello Adam, Eastleigh here. Nice scope you got there, hope you get many good views out of it.

[RT65CB-SWL]

Hi @Adam1234 and welcome to SGL. 

Just north you in the Royal County of Berkshire  and somewhere between Reading & Wokingham .

Edited July 21, 2019 by Philip R

[Demonperformer]

Hi, Adam, and welcome to SGL.

I'm about 40km west of you, so in astronomical terms that's quite close (4.228x10^-12 light years).

Enjoy the journey.

[PeterCPC]

Hello Adam and welcome - a bit north east of you.

Peter

[MarsG76]

Hello and welcome to SGL.

 

[Jonk]

Welcome, I'm in West End, recently moved here from Portsmouth.

Do you plan on using the New Forest or maybe Old Winchester Hill for dark skies?

[Floater]

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

[ScoobyStoo]

Haven't visited this website in many years. Moved from London to Chandler's Ford last year and just happened to login again to see if any local astro meetups down this way. Coincidence that the first thread I stumble upon is yours.

During my Sunday afternoon internetting I've found these two clubs:

https://hantsastro.org.uk/ These guys seem active and are over Pompey way.

http://www.solentastro.org/ These guys are closer to Southampton, but a fair bit of the info on the website is out of date so wonder how active they are.

I'd imagine there are some decent dark sky spots in the Forest. Anyone more familiar with the area have any suggestions?

[Mr Spock]

Hi Adam, welcome to SGL

[Adam1234]

Thanks for all the welcome messages.

@JonkYes I'd like to get out to the New Forest or Winchester at some point. In the meantime I'm trying to get myself familiar with my telescope and work out what everything does and if it's in collimation before taking it out.

[Startinez]

Welcome to the site Adam. 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂