woldsman Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hello everyone, I've been observing for a couple of months with an 8 inch Dobsonian Skywatcher - finally got round to setting up, after ditheriing for many years, and wish I'd started sooner. Located in a fairly large East Riding village not too far away from Tophill Low. As the night-time clouds show no sign of going away, I thought I'd join the site and introduce myself. To date, I'm getting on well with my scope. I purchased a 6mm Baader EP to supplement the two EPs that came as standard, which is terrific for Moon craters. Have also installed a Rigel quikfinder but as this makes using the straight finderscope a bit trickier, have ordered a RACI. My only other supplementary purchase is a Moon filter which I'm using a lot. Have found Turn Left at Orion incredibly useful as a reference book. When conditions make observing difficult/impossible (which happens a lot of the time), I enjoy looking into the history/theory of astronomy so any suggestions for videos or similar would be greatly appreciated. I also wear spectacles and find this gets annoying at times so any tips for spectacle wearers would also be useful. Woldsman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbulo Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Welcome to SLG. Sorry but I can't give you any advice about spectacles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiny Clanger Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hello and welcome, you have a good setup there, just need something to actually see ....curse those clouds ! With a vast amount of info out there it's hard to say where to start, but maybe working through some of the free OU modules might be worth a try ? https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/free-courses/?filter=date/grid/671/all/all/all/ I know I found a series of good youtube vids on the history of astronomy ages ago, I can't track down the link though . so in the meantime, if you like listening , you could have a trawl through the huge radio 4 archive of Melvyn Bragg's' 'In our time' program , on science and find subjects which interest you https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j/episodes/downloads?page=1 some of the modern science may be a little out of date (the prog.s date back a decade, and science moves on ...) but the historically focused ones like this one on Kepler are excellent https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085xpzf Heather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commanderfish Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Welcome! How long til you buy your second scope? 😈 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloz1664 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hi Woldsman, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floater Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjaxed Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hi and welcome to SGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Hi, welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woldsman Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Thanks for the replies - really appreciate it. Thanks also to Proto Star for the tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterCPC Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Hello and welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookie1965 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 A warm welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Lloyd Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Hi and welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TerraC Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hello from Hessle - not a million miles away from you. Welcome to the forum.. Need some clear sky and lockdown to be lifted but i'm after getting out to the moors when I can in search of some dark sky. Garden watching with a 6" dob but I Recently bought an AZ-GTI tracking mount for a 4" Achromat. Then the clouds rolled in so had no chance to even test it out yet.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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