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• #78
condom over-shoes (unused) ftw
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• #79
condom over-shoes (unused) ftw
No condoms.
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• #80
- Hairnetnic
- Chak
- shinkuu kiss
- Ludd
- blue fleet
- sky-browse.
- t.o. infinity and beyond
∞. skygazer
9 Messier 606 - Mattsplanb
- Samuelson
- conker
- mars (Aquarius)
- HairyChris
- Cazakstan
- balmain
- Ramaye (Aquarius)
- theatomium
- bothwell (Uranus)
- Seraphinx
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b. Velocio
b. blueprints
b. middleofnowhere
b. Bundo
b. Eyko
b. UmeVelo
b. T4
- Hairnetnic
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• #82
Those T4 astrographs appear to be sitting on Paramounts like the ones that hairnetnic has at Mill Hill, supporting his fleet of C14s.
When imma growed-up I'm gonna have one of them.
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• #85
Apologies!
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• #86
-Thirdly, the cost is more than I estimated, it is likely to be £5 per head, I'll try to negotiate it down.
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• #87
Brilliant suggestion Miss Mouse,did you see the answer in the Stars? I'm in ,to bring the costs down further.......
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• #88
A few years back I had the opportunity to look at Jupiter through the Lockyer Telescope, at an open evening:
http://www.normanlockyer.com/telescopes.html
That was pretty damn good.
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• #89
Brilliant suggestion Miss Mouse,did you see the answer in the Stars? I'm in ,to bring the costs down further.......
A few years back I had the opportunity to look at Jupiter through the Lockyer Telescope, at an open evening:
http://www.normanlockyer.com/telescopes.html
That was pretty damn good.
Alas the site is too small to entertain more than 20 at once, it wouldn't be much fun waiting around and squashing into the domes...
If all goes well then another trip in the spring could be a possibility...
Hopefully Jupiter is going to be visible for our trip, it really is a treat through the Fry refractor
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• #90
I wish I had seen this earlier - I'm just on my way back to London now. Seeing as I'm pretty close to Mill Hill anyway, could I send over my number and if there's a missing rider on the day you could text me and I'll meet you at the observatory? No worries if not, hope it's a good ride!
Just in case there's 7 drop outs.. list amended..
- Hairnetnic
- Chak
- shinkuu kiss
- Ludd
- blue fleet
- sky-browse.
- t.o. infinity and beyond
∞. skygazer
9 Messier 606 - Mattsplanb
- Samuelson
- conker
- mars (Aquarius)
- HairyChris
- Cazakstan
- balmain
- Ramaye (Aquarius)
- theatomium
- bothwell (Uranus)
- Seraphinx
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b. Velocio
b. blueprints
b. middleofnowhere
b. Bundo
b. Eyko
b. UmeVelo
b.Temp
b. Miss Mouse
b. keanulooser
b. T4
b. BisonIncandenza
- Hairnetnic
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• #91
Alas the site is too small to entertain more than 20 at once, it wouldn't be much fun waiting around and squashing into the domes...
If all goes well then another trip in the spring could be a possibility...
Hopefully Jupiter is going to be visible for our trip, it really is a treat through the Fry refractor
If so, do you reckon someone might be able to get some digital shots of it since the telescope is capable of doing so?
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• #92
If so, do you reckon someone might be able to get some digital shots of it since the telescope is capable of doing so?
There is an adaptor for connecting a nikon dslr to the Fry scope, we could probably use that to get some pics for the group. Time allowing it should be possible to connect your own nikon to the scope for imaging.
I'm considering the possibility of using a C14 for some deep sky imaging but it might be tricky operating two telescopes.
I'll have a think and see what is sensible...
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• #93
Wow! Coming away from this with photos would be amazing. Might just edge out my Foulness Island mug as my favourite ride souvenir :-)
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• #94
There is an adaptor for connecting a nikon dslr to the Fry scope, we could probably use that to get some pics for the group. Time allowing it should be possible to connect your own nikon to the scope for imaging.
I'm considering the possibility of using a C14 for some deep sky imaging but it might be tricky operating two telescopes.
I'll have a think and see what is sensible...
That would be incredible! I'll gladly offer two Nikon bodies if they need to be used (permitting of course) and will gladly distribute the images if anyone wants.
Damn...got so many questions. I'll save them for later. The history of the whole complex is fascinating.
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• #95
Forgive me if I offer this up as a taster of what an 8" aperture can do in suburban London - but no fancy Nikons for me, this was on a £5.99 Philips webcam from Morgan Computers.
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• #96
Forgive me if I offer this up as a taster of what an 8" aperture can do in suburban London - but no fancy Nikons for me, this was on a £5.99 Philips webcam from Morgan Computers.
Very nice! The planets are certainly within reach of telescopes even in central London.
There is a club that meet in Regent's park once a month, The Baker Street Irregular Astronomers. They get some half decent deep sky stuff I believe...
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• #97
Do we need another list for things to look at?
- Jupiter
- M31
Not that I give a crap, I'll look at what anyone wants to see.
- Jupiter
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• #98
Forgive me if I offer this up as a taster of what an 8" aperture can do in suburban London - but no fancy Nikons for me, this was on a £5.99 Philips webcam from Morgan Computers.
That's astonishing! You can get that kind of clarity in London's smoky London? I always assumed it was more effort than it's worth to try see anything here, money limiting of course. If you can see that level of detail, what else can you see?
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• #99
Well, to be fair it was an exceptional evening, with very steady skies. The stars weren't even twinkling, and there was a fine high altitude haze, and this image was made out of a couple of thousand individual 640 x 480 pixel frames that I'd selected out of a video shot with the webcam, which I'd then aligned and stacked on my PC before applying some local contrast enhancement tweaks.
Still, in the right conditions, this is not that far off the view you can get at the eyepiece when conditions are right, but quite often the conditions are only right for a few fleeting moments in any one night's observing.
The Fry telescope ought to be a real treat on Jupiter: unobstructed optics (my scope has a whacking great secondary mirror sitting in front of the main mirror, which steals light and contrast) and a stonking 3.2 metre focal length which will give really high magnification.
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• #100
Very nice shot, Ludd! As I only have a pair of 10 x 50 binoculars I can clearly see 4 moons but not much detail of Jupiter's atmosphere when it's at it's closest.
Gonna get some cosmic slippers
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/623916737_1/SH-013-2012-New-Fashion-Woman-Galaxy-Cosmic-Space-Print-Hand-painted-canvas-Low-font-b.jpg