I had better say hello

[Ovenpaa]

I have been lurking here for a while, in fact since 2015 so I thought it was time to say hello. I used to run a 4" Newtonian maybe 30 years ago however the ex ended up with that and I ended up in a large village and then in a smaller village so never truly dark skies. Now, at long last we are hopefully moving/retiring to a sparsely populated part of a small island in Denmark, so hopefully more time to peer at the sky and a lot less light pollution.

Right now I have no idea of what sort of system to aspire to other than astrophotography does rather appeal..

No doubt there will be questions along the way

David

[wookie1965]

A warm welcome to SGL

[RT65CB-SWL]

Hi @Ovenpaa and welcome to SGL. 

[Floater]

Welcome. Glad you said hello. Have lots of fun under those dark skies. 🙂

[dave34]

Welcome to the lounge

[Richard_]

Welcome David, good to see you on here   Hope you find what you're looking for!

From your Welsh pal on another forum.

[barbulo]

Welcome to SGL

[PeterCPC]

Hello and welcome.

[MarsG76]

Welcome to SGL.

[Coco]

Hello David

Official baptised into SGL..

 

Guy

[F15Rules]

Welcome David😊

I'm also close to the Lincolnshire Wolds and enjoy Bortle 4 skies..believe me, it's better here than in rural west Leicestershire (Bortle 5) or Leicester itself!

I also visited Denmark regularly with my job for 12 years and know there are some lovely little islands offshore, I would think at least Bortle 3, so skies should be great..worth getting a proper scope (refractor of course) now!!👍😂.

Good luck with your move.

Dave

[Alan White]

A belated welcome, that must be a record in forum lurking.
Sounds like a wonderful location in your near future.

[Dave Lloyd]

Hi David, welcome. I lurked for 2 years before signing up. 

[M40]

Hello Ovenpaa and welcome to the site 👍 a seven year lurker, has to be a record I think I was a mere 6 months

[Ovenpaa]

I think it is important to understand what you are letting yourself in for instead of jumping in with both feet. I think it was a similar number of years from meeting my wife to marrying her!

 

[Viktiste]

Hi and welcome. 

'Ovenpaa' - I smell something Norwegian here?

[Orlando Gonzalez]

Hello everyone. Learning my way around SGL.

[bosun21]

Hi David 👋 welcome to the lounge 

[Murf26]

Hi there. Was lurking for 24 hours then joined currently living in rural Rutland Bortle 4 far enough away from Leicester and Peterborough to be relatively dark. 

[M40]

On 10/10/2022 at 21:48, Murf26 said:

Hi there. Was lurking for 24 hours then joined currently living in rural Rutland Bortle 4 far enough away from Leicester and Peterborough to be relatively dark. 

Hello Murf26, welcome. Compared to Ovenpaa's seven years and my six months I am not sure that 24 hours qualifies as lurking, it's more like loitering  Enjoy the Bortle 4, that's the same where we are, you should get some nice dark nights from that. All the best.

[Pete Presland]

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

[Ovenpaa]

Thank you all, I am now the proud owner of a 14" Orion Dobsonian, I have added a 450D with Backyard EOS and have the tracking software driven by my laptop so I am getting there. Now we just need to pack everything away and move and hopefully end of next month we will be in a new time zone with a dark sky enjoying the billions of stars around us.

[Richard_]

Nice one David 👍 Hope the move goes well, and do let us know in the new year how the night sky looks and how the new telescope performs! 

[Kn4fty]

Welcome from across the pond! Lots of folks here to help you along the way!

Rob