Stupid accident but good rewards

[garethmob]

Well..... I was driving back from my frat time at usk Astro society and for some strange reason y cars fuel gauge went from quarter to 0 and just died. Well while I was getting rescued (just before coldra rounderbout from Raglan/ midlands) grabbed my celestrion skymaster binos out and saw jupitor amazing could see moons too also saw a really nice star cluster not sure which one didn't have compas on me. But isn't it funny how the best times for looking are the least appropriate.

[garethmob]

quite amazingly to my self the star clusters i saw were in fact the pleidies clusters im actually quite shocked i saw them with quite perfectly too!!

[itchy]

I find the Pleiades look far better in the binos than through my 'scope...

Although saying that my lowest EP is 25mm so maybe i need a 32....

[Rob wright]

Pleiades looks great through my skymasters too, only had the 1 chance so far to use them but I look forward to a proper clear night to get out to a dark sky location

[great_bear]

Even in light-polluted North London they looked quite beautiful last night with a Sky-Watcher Explorer 130P with a Tele Vue 24mm Panoptic eyepiece.

[darkly]

I find the Pleiades look far better in the binos than through my 'scope...

Although saying that my lowest EP is 25mm so maybe i need a 32....

Pleiades through 38mm panaview = stunning, it made me ask a while ago whether or not I could get a 40 / 45 EP onto my scope (wanting to see how far I could push it LOL) - diminishing returns so probably not worth it.

But yes, the Pleiades are something else, just for the sense of depth and the colours alone the 38mm was worth it!

They're definitely regulars on my schedules.

[F64]

Theres always a silver lining to these situations

[Sam]

Great to see you made the most of a bad situation (and a good reason to carry a set of binos in the car!)

[guyroch]

So what was wrong with the car? We may want ours to break down just like yours... as long as we have a set of binos

[garethmob]

the fuel float had gotten stuck and it litterly ran out of fuel on 1/4 tank

[Altair40]

Sorry, my post is late but I thought I'd share:- just noticed thread.

I once snapped the petrol cap key off in the fuel cap of a talbot horizon (about 1988) - went driving around to find a garage prepared to help. One did by knocking the cap off with a hammer and replacing with a plastic temporary cap.

Case of rather him than me with that hammer! I'd have done it myself with a screwdriver if it had been a diesel. this was petrol in summer. Kaboom!

And I've left a minibus diesel cap on top of the pump - on the way to Scotland from London...

Our (Diesel) truck has a tendancy to lock itself which I try to be aware of and not leave the keys inside...

Maybe I should keep at least a pair of cheap bins in the truck.