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I am looking to get a telescope to restart my astronomy hobby. The only scopes I have used before have been 'supermarket' scopes and as such need a bit of advice about the best one to buy.
I am looking to spend £250 - £300 and after doing much searching on the net I have narrowed down my options to the following scopes; Skywatcher skyline 200 8"dob, Celestron C6-N 6"equatorial, Skywatcher Explorer 150 6"equatorial or ...

Iknew that issue one had gone but just rang hoping to get issue 2 which has some articles of particular interest.
June July and August (1,2,3) now all gone!
Somebody suggested making PDF copies available - I'll say yes to that if a re-print is out of the question.

Anybody want to part with 1,2,3?

Auray

Hi Folks
Recently bit the bullet and got myself the Meade DSI. Not had a chance to use it yet as I aint seen the sky for ages .....but any tips for when I do would be greatly appreciated. BTW I haven't even got a digital camera.

Hi,
Having just taken receipt of my new scope (Celestron C8-NGT Computerised) I am attempting to align it. This is my first computer controlled set and I'm a bit stuck. Having given the gps position I am attempting to do a quick align as I cannot see three stars from the list from my observing location to undertake a 3 star align. However, when I ask it to move to the moon it is ...

Hi Gang,
I was just wondering whether any of yhe forum were going to the Merseyside Astronomy Day at the Spaceport centre in Seacombe on March 11th. If anyone is close enough to attend then hopefully I will meet you there!
jsc248

Hi,

Following a visit to Astrofest last weekend I have just bought one of the Popoutside,com portable observatories (Awaiting its arrival this week ! ) - anyone got one / had experience using one - I'd welcome some feedback....

Best Wishes

Richard

Everyone

Professor Alan Fitszimmons from the Astrophysics department of Queen's University, Belfast will be speaking on "Deep Impact the Story so Far". The lecture will report on the discoveries of the deep impact mission which impacted comet Tempel 1 in July 2005 with a projectile returning detailed images to earth.

This meeting will be the annual Andrew Trimble Memorial Lecture and will be at the Thompson Primary School, Ballyrobert Antrim, at 8pm.

Everyone welcome.

For ...

Anyone here see this month's programme reporting from Mauna Kea? The range of telescopes there plus the sky conditions make my scope seem like a cheap toy & makes me feel like giving up with what we get in cloudy old Britain.

Certainly very impressive. Is it my imagination - but does Chris Lintott seem to be taking over the reigns of SAN more & more?

I gather the clouds may part at long last this week.
Is the duration of this cloud cover some kind of record?
Several weeks by my reckoning.
The moon nearly peeped through last night - I rushed in for the bins but, you guessed, it had disappeared again in minutes.

I went along to the NAS tonight and became a member. It was actually an open evening with a v interesting talk on the future of space exploration. A very friendly bunch and some great facilities. Check it out
http://www.norwich.astronomicalsociety.org.uk/

What are others experiences of local socs.