hi everyone well my first scope arrived yesterday - unpacked it and eventually assembled everything correctly looked out of the window hopefully.............. ...
Hi Nigel, You are right about last night, but hang in there it gets better. What kind of scope did you buy? Sounds like a GoTo of some sort. Regards, Austin...
hi it was meade etx 125pe i know lots of people will say i should have got maybe a refractor or reflector as a newbie, but i am very impatient and wanted...
... I think it would be worth investing some time initially away from the telescope to learn the shapes of the constellations and where some of the brightest...
hi yeah thanks for that at the moment im browsing the net for sites also i bought 'astronomy for dummies' which is pretty good and ha web addresses on. ive...
Nigel, that's a belting little scope and you should get years of great use out of it. As for the streetlights, I've heard of guys turning them off by shining a...
Nigel, I forgot to mention SAS, I've only had a couple of encounters with them, last year when I was trying to negotiate an observing dome for NASTRO which...
I don't think the observatory is open during the summer months. The planetarium website is http://www.stcplanetarium.themoon.co.uk/ There is a PDF document on...
I know exactly how you feel Nigel! I bought a brand new telescope about a month ago. When it arrived the motor didn't work! The seller refused to send a...
my sympathies m8 -at least i think mine works ok - just my knowledge thats lacking. been given a website called metcheck.com for forecasts day and night -...
Well last night I did manage to Align my telescope last night but there was only one star (Arcturus not sure of the spelling) and Jupiter and the Alignment...
Hi all, As it was a beautiful evening yesterday, at about 21:30 I grabbed the Bino's & compass and set out to bag Venus also with the hope of catching the new...
Hi all, Beautifully clear last night without the thick atmosphere hanging over the horizon as the previous evening, the new(ish) moon presented no problems....
The moon looked very nice over the northwest horizon last night. No bins or telescope - just saw it while out walking. Did you notice how far towards the...
Hi Austin I didn't venture far last night but could observe venus and the moon from my front garden. I used the bins from Lidl to see venus but could not...
SIMON EMBLETON
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Jun 9, 2005 12:01 pm
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Hi all, In the evening twilight, about 5 degrees above the horizon to the NW three planets are closing in on each other. This will be the best planet "trio"...
I've got a fairly clear view of the NW from my bedroom window and I saw Venus at about 10.15pm last night. Glimpsed Mercury with bins (8x40) in the same field...
Hi Guys Spotted Venus last night using my 10X50's from a good vantage point, unfortunately from where I live my view is obscurred by houses I couldn't view...
SIMON EMBLETON
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Jun 24, 2005 11:11 am
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Did anyone see all three planets involved in the conjunction yesterday? I saw Venus easily without optical aid and Mercury was clearly visible with the...
Hi all, I've been checking the last couple of clear nights. Like you say, Venus is no problem with the naked eye after about 21:45 and Mercury with the...
There is a photo on the spaceweather.com website from yesterday: http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2005/28jun05/Yabut.jpg If you look carefully you see Saturn...
Hi all, I've been checking the last couple of clear nights. Like you say, Venus is no problem with the naked eye after about 21:45 and Mercury with the...
Thanks Adrian, Thats why I couldn't see it, I was looking in the wrong place. I hadn't realised it was so low with respect to the other two now. Regards, ...
Check out this photo. Regards, John Adrian Jannetta <adrian@...> wrote:Did anyone see all three planets involved in the conjunction yesterday? I saw...
Yep, you can just about make out Saturn as well as the more obvious Venus-Mercury conjunction. Thanks for that, Adrian johneh2005-sailor@... wrote: ...
Hi all Went to a site where I could see NW horizon and took my 10X50's. Like Adrian managed to see Venus and Mercury(1st time ever) but no Saturn. Well maybe...
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