This image made me chuckle

[Alan White]

Snapped a quick pic of the Vixen setup in White Light use and found a halo around the mount, clearly it’s Sainted…

Ok it’s a reflection on the lens, but I do like these mounts so much.

[Franklin]

2 hours ago, Alan White said:

found a halo around the mount, clearly it’s Sainted…

Looks like ectoplasm to me, you best call Ghostbusters Alan!

[JeremyS]

2 hours ago, Alan White said:

Snapped a quick pic of the Vixen setup in White Light use and found a halo around the mount, clearly it’s Sainted…

Ok it’s a reflection on the lens, but I do like these mounts so much.

The other odd thing about the pic, Alan, is your new storage shed appears trapezoid 🤔🤣

[Ags]

The whole picture makes me think of a song...

One pill makes you larger
One pill makes you smaller
The pill that mother gives you 
Doesn't do anything at all...

[Sunshine]

A Vixen GP, yes it is sainted!

[Franklin]

7 hours ago, JeremyS said:

your new storage shed appears trapezoid

Bit of a wide angle thing going on here.

[michael8554]

The Tate Modern would love your shed.

Next to the pile of bricks ?

From the Quaint style of architecture:

 

[RT65CB-SWL]

9 hours ago, Sunshine said:

A Vixen GP, yes it is sainted!

The ‘only’ EQ/GEM that ‘works’ for me. I regret selling mine.

[RT65CB-SWL]

14 hours ago, Ags said:

The whole picture makes me think of a song...

One pill makes you larger
One pill makes you smaller
The pill that mother gives you 
Doesn't do anything at all...

Or the ‘Red Pill/Blue Pill’ scene from The Matrix... 

 

[Alan White]

19 hours ago, JeremyS said:

The other odd thing about the pic, Alan, is your new storage shed appears trapezoid 🤔🤣

@JeremyS, have you not realized it is the Tardis showing its stretching for more kit.
A sight very rarely caught on camera 😉

 

Edited July 10, 2023 by Alan White

[Alan White]

3 hours ago, RT65CB-SWL said:

The ‘only’ EQ/GEM that ‘works’ for me. I regret selling mine.

Its my third one, every time I sell one its instant regret.
I now am working on buying a second sometime, this is to ensure I always have one to sell and one to keep 😉

I would actually like one driven and one all manual, and I know I could do it with clutches, but all manual is great at times,
keeps it all very real and how I started out with a very wobbly eq3 is sized bresser mount many years ago now.

 

[John]

I've owned at least 3 Vixen GP's and an SP and a GP-DX over the years. I use them for a bit, get frustrated by them, sell them on and then see some pictures on here of scopes (especially refractors) mounted on them, and the desire to have one is re-ignited all over again 🙄

"Rinse and repeat" as the saying goes 😁

Having also owned GP copies such as the EQ5, CG5 and the LXD55 / 75 from Meade, I appreciate how well the Japanese made Vixen stuff is made. Much more precise machining and casting which results in better carrying capacity and more pleasure in use 👍

(scurries off to check out the for sale boards.....) 

 

Edited July 10, 2023 by John

[Franklin]

Everyone should have a manual SP/GP tucked away, just in case your computer controlled GOTO mount blows up!

[Alan White]

2 hours ago, Franklin said:

Everyone should have a manual SP/GP tucked away, just in case your computer controlled GOTO mount blows up!

More importantly for the Zombie Appocolipse happens and you still wish to observe

[F15Rules]

On 09/07/2023 at 19:43, Alan White said:

Snapped a quick pic of the Vixen setup in White Light use and found a halo around the mount, clearly it’s Sainted…

Ok it’s a reflection on the lens, but I do like these mounts so much.

Alan, 

I thought you'd installed a fan to cool the motors..🤦‍♂️😂

Dave

[Alan White]

@F15Rules that’s a super idea Dave, just need the motors now then, got ahead of myself 😉

[RT65CB-SWL]

On 10/07/2023 at 13:59, michael8554 said:

The Tate Modern would love your shed.

Next to the pile of bricks ?

From the Quaint style of architecture:

 

On the news recently The Crooked House pub [originally known as Glynne Arms] was sold to a wealthy property developer.

A month after the sale, arson destroyed it and now demolished. The local police force are treating it as suspicious.

[callisto]

Yeah, was just going to say it's a pile of bricks now 🫣

[michael8554]

Yes saw that on the news, highly suggestive of a speculator wanting a clear site to build on.

[bosun21]

3 minutes ago, michael8554 said:

Yes saw that on the news, highly suggestive of a speculator wanting a clear site to build on.

Surely just a sheer coincidence 🤔🙄.

[Grump Martian]

Alan, with that halo. You should call your mount Dominic. St Dominic was the patron saint of stargazing. Look him up.