Frosty the Telescope

[CGolder]

I must be mad, it was dark nice and early last night and the seeing was amazing, so the whole scope family had a run last night including the new imaging set up. I was looking for comparisons with my etx and my lx10 and then i couldn't resist getting the lx90 out as its just amazing.

I was out till 1:30am and the frost was gathering on the scopes and dew shields so i thought it was time to come inside

u know its cold when one min you have a sip of coffee and then u have another and its stone cold

[dc509]

Do Meade scopes start breeding when you have 2 of them?

[CGolder]

haha it does seem to look that way my first imaging attempts were poor at best. i think the cold was slowing down my brain. If only my eye pieces starting breeding to make more little ones

[NGC 1502]

Well, I had 2 scopes out, so way down on you !

I've used "they must be breeding" excuse to explain my

eyepiece collection, but the missus doesn't believe me.

I will use the "how many pairs of shoes do you have"

remark next !!

Best regards, Ed.

[CGolder]

I have been struggling a bit with space as the 10" lx90 come around rather unexpectedly. so it was very nice to get some good comparisons of all my scopes together... you know the scope that impressed me the most last night was the etx 125, optically it is a superb scope. packs a big punch for its size.

[Photosbykev]

slip a 3" dew heater tape around the coffee cup to keep it warm

[CGolder]

haha thats a good idea i saw a USB hot plate on IWOOT, might be useful

[CGolder]

According to the BBC we should have another great night... lets hope my scopes, coffee and hands don't freeze tonight

[SniffTheGlove]

u know its cold when one min you have a sip of coffee and then u have another and its stone cold

That or you get so engrossed that an hour passes in an instant

[CGolder]

That could explain it, was a long session. was out just before dark and then still out till early morning...

[DarkerSky]

Nice photos. My scope was well iced up by the time I came in last night. My seeing wasn't all that great in my location

[Beyond_Vision]

A very nice 'family' you have there

Regards

Kevin

[Nexus 6]

That's one nice collection of scopes! With christmas coming I guess you'll be wanting another one!

Stay Frosty.

Alan

[Asur84]

Do Meade scopes start breeding when you have 2 of them?

Ive heard their like gerbils like that.