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dark star

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Hi from light polluted London. I was interested in astronomy when I was 11 years old and have rekindled my interst after around 35 years!

I enjoy looking at nebula and globular clusters, when I can find them! I also like looking at planets and will never forget seeing Saturn through a telescope for the first time in 35 years last year.

There are so many beautiful and intersting things in the night sky!

I have a Skywatcher 150PL reflector, a 120mm f/5 refractor, Helios 15x70 binoculars, Revelation 20x100 binoculars, an Orion 9x50 RACI finder scope, a WO UWAN 7mm eyepiece, some other eyepieces and an Astronomics UHF filter. I have already become a bit carried away with buying equipment!

I find reading posts by more experienced people on Stargazers Lounge very informative, I found out about the Stellarium star map software here which I use all the time.

Greetings again from London (my user name by the way is taken from the title of a very funny comedy science fiction film).

dark star

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Hartmann_Wetzlar

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I grew up in Dublin and the skies weren't too bad when I was a teenager.I left nearly 3 years ago and many years you would not get any dark skies all year round.

I live in the South of Galway now (West coast of Ireland) and the skies here are fantastic and you can see really low down.

I have a Meade telescope & Hertel & Reuss fold out telescope plus a few binoculars.I am excited tonight coz I got a pair of Yashica 7x35's off eBay in perfect condition.They have a 10 degree field which is superb.

I may get them by Friday and maybe the moon will be out of the way by then!

Cheers.

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I haven't seen the film Dark Star for years either, but I really liked it! I will post next week when I have more time about my epic year long search for M57 the Ring Nebula, which I finally found a week ago (moving a bit further out from the centre of London recently helped with this I think,)finding M27 the Dumbell Nebula and learning to star hop. Thanks for the welcome.

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Simon1990

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Hi Dark Star, welcome to SGL! I'm only 20 years old, so naturally my general ignorance means I have never heard of the film. Sounds very well received though the comments above, so will have to investigate further!

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