And today I did......

[Mr Panda]

Out on the deck with Mrs P and her mum looking at Jupiter through the scope

....its a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht etc.

 

[clockworkgazz]

how many moons you seeing and what scope you using- miss my 8 inch dobsonian

 

[Mr Panda]

how many moons you seeing and what scope you using- miss my 8 inch dobsonian

FNAR FNAR



Just using some bins and a sh!tty Ch*nese 6" refractor (i think ) got for Mrs P's xmas a few years back

 

[clockworkgazz]

bino's are great suprizing how much you can see and I doubt the seeing is great for planetary observation given the weather anyway


ahhh remember the first time I clapped eyes on Saturn's rings

 

[Mr Panda]

clear as a bell tonite gazz - just checking out Orion's Nebula

Jupiter's moons - 3 maybe 4

EDIT - make that 4 - just found Io lol

 

[The Ken]

I've not pulled my 5inch refractor out for a couple of years, what make Mr P, I have a helios which is chinese built but not too bad, they are called skywatcher now. I could do with a tracking motor for photography, and a more compact scope would be easier.

 

[clockworkgazz]

my dobsonian was a skywatcher and a pretty good machine it was to. great light buckets for the money if a bit big :roll:

 

[Dr S]

Visit Retrotelescope.com and check out the size of those rings.

 

[velomaniac]

Am I the only one on here whose soul anorak hobby is old bicycles :roll:

I need to get into something else, I'm obviously missing out

 

[clockworkgazz]

I voted in the road bike botm comp. Some nice entries this month