Out Tonight ?

[jakey]

Well, I finally got out tonight, set everything up got some good views of the moon, even got my webcam hooked up as well

Everything was going too well :nono: I thought I would try and find Andromeda (Probablly the moon would wash it out, but wanted to try and find it) How the hell do you guys use the bl00dy finder scope!!!! I cannot use the thing at all. What I see through the finder bears no relation to what I see with my bare eyes. I mean I see loads more stars in the finder and cannot seem to figure out what star I want. I have got a red dot finder but it does not fit in the socket that the finder scope goes in so I glued it on the back of my scope Needless to say it fell of this afternoon so I could not use it tonight I thought the finder would be OK but looks like I need to master that before I go any further I will have a play with my moon footage and maybe post a piccie.

If you can, get a telrad, I could no longer manage without it. Also if you dig a little deeper in the pocket you can also get the telrad finder charts of the messier objects by Brent watson

Since I bought that and the telrad togehter, I find things much quicker and easier that my old goto that I had.

[blinky]

I have glued the red dot finder back on this morning, well I glued the mount on, so I can still remove it to change batteries etc. I now havr the normal finder and the red dot finder, so should be sorted for tonight

Any sugestions what to go for? I am facing nearly due south so was thinking with my 8" newt I shoud get a good view of the Orion nebula?

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Had a bash at the comet with DSLR and SC3 webcam. Who nicked the tail? I think the moon was too bright and washed out any detail. Posting images very soon.

Captain Chaos

[daz]

I was out last night out the front and showing the kids the moon as they cam round trick-n-treating.

Without fail, everyone that had a look (and a few mums did as well) went 'Wow!'!! It was especially good when a few whisps of cloud went through the FOV - it was a real All Hallows Moon

Out tonight fingers crossed!!

[geppetto]

Who nicked the tail?

Just what I was thinking the other night as well CC :?

Blame the moon