Hello from Kent!

[NeonSpectres]

Hi All,

I'm Spencer from Ashford, down in Kent (England).

I've just got back into the hobby after a long hiatus (nearly a decade?) and have been trying out different setup locations in the garden (we moved house a couple of years back but I haven't had time to dig the scope etc. out!) and getting to know the sky again.

I currently switch between a Celestron C8 and a set of Orion GiantView (25x100) binoculars: at the moment I'm making sure everything is set up OK (took me a while to collimate the C8 as the secondary mirror was rather wafty after the move, but with the help of a home-made artificial star, everything is crisp again) and doing a bit of visual astronomy but I hope to get back into some DSLR astrophotography (currently with the Moon when it's up, but later with DSO's).

[barbulo]

Hi and welcome to SGL!

[Same old newbie alert]

Hi Spencer, funny I'm  also from Ashford Kent.. and also use a C8 amongst other scopes... Feel free to pm me if you wish

[Floater]

Welcome. Hope you have lots of fun. 🙂

[Sunshine]

Welcome to SGL!

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome.

[banjaxed]

Hi Spencer, welcome to SGL.

[wookie1965]

A warm welcome to SGL 

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi Spencer, welcome. 

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂