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Hi All,

I have recently retired, and have been meaning to join an astronomical group for some time.

My name is Roger, and I live in Birmingham, but spend a lot of my time in N.Wales, and am looking to get more acquainted with astronomy. So I am looking to get my first instrument, so much choice, so much advice, but I am thinking of getting a good pair of binoculars initially.

Regards.

Roger

Greetings stargazers,

I am new to the forum and I am interested in astrophotography, astrophysics, science in general and computing. I am a retired boffin and like to write software with scientific applications. I have just posted some new (free) Python plug-ins for GIMP that are specific to processing astro images. I found them useful, maybe you will too! If interested, get in touch. (I would post the URL, but Auntie thinks my message too ...

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My name is Phil and just signed up on the forum,so a quick hello too all here

Just came back too astronomy as my son has developed an interest , so some quality father/son time.

I have other interests as well including Amateur Radio (which led me down this path a few years back),also into photography,motor racing but not F1.

Equipment so far :-
8" Dobsonian telescope
Astro eye piece kit
14mm Explorer Scientific ...

HI all,

A big hello to you all from me, SuperCooper. I am an experienced observational amateur astronomer, one time aquaintance of Patrick Moore and john Dobson and I have a lot of advice to give for free.

To this end I have set up a website with plenty of telescope advice guides and information for the newcommer. I am fanatical about steering people in the right direction when it comes to telescopic equipment.

If ...

Hello, Just received my first telescope for my 40th birthday yesterday. I've wanted one for many many years. I have a Skywatcher Explorer 150p, Mount EQ3-2. Haven't got it aligned yet, can't wait to use it. Any tips and help would be appreciated.

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I am looking to get my first telescope albeit it wont be till later in the year, so I am currently trying to determine what kind, make, size to get.
I had wanted to diverse into viewing and photography but from the little I have read the latter seems to be a tricky option, so maybe I'll save myself a lot of money by concentrating on just observing?

I'm kind of drawn to ...

Hello everyone!

We have just taken the plunge and ordered our first telescope, its a Skywatcher Skymax 127 supatrak, alt azimuth stand...

I'm excited to see if I can see a good image of Saturn, I have heard that we are able to see it quite well this week along with Jupiter - well most planets for the next 10 days.

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Having received a 'Sky at Night' magazine subscription for Christmas, I went on the web site and found the forum. I live in Lincolnshire, and observe the night's sky whenever I can.

Hi all, just registered on the forum after getting my first telescope for christmas (not bad at almost 42 years old). Needless to say I've wanted to get into astronomy in more depth for a long time, and hopefully expand my photography into astrophotography as well.
So, I'm just starting out, I've got the Bresser Skylux EL, which I'm just getting to grips with, slowly to be fair, but I guess there is a lot ...

Greetings to all members. I have just joined the forum so I thought I would drop by and say hi. I live in Colne, Lancashire in the UK. I have a lot of time on my hands these days so I decided to find something to do and share with my Grandson that we both are interested in. After talking with my Grandson we found we had a shared interest in astronomy. Let me point ...