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[Intergage (Matt)]

Wow Suzy!! Thank you HEAPS for that post.. Did you type all that out yourself?

I believe that should be it's own page or at least sticky!

I gave it a quick run over and found 100% of it useful!

Thanks heap!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Hey Grats Suzy!

2000 quality posts and counting.....

(where is my party page? sniff....)

Cheers

Chris

[Intergage (Matt)]

Got bad news for anyone that cares. They couldn't stop the shipping of the scope and I got it today...

Set it up and I hate the mount already.. The scope seems OK but yeah. I can understand why people will get frustrated at it and throw it out.

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Hey Matt
Sorry to hear that yoiu couldn't cancel it. Have a bit of a play with it, it will male you appreciate a dob more when you get one.

[Intergage (Matt)]

Originally Posted by barx1963

Hey Matt
Sorry to hear that yoiu couldn't cancel it. Have a bit of a play with it, it will male you appreciate a dob more when you get one.

Well, that is true..

It will do for learning how to read star maps star hop etc I guess.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

such a shame.
Did the binoculars arrive??

[Intergage (Matt)]

jjj, yep.. too bad it's meant to be raining and cloudy for the next few days -.-

I do LOVE the Bino's though.. need a tripod because they are H-E-A-V-Y!!
Got to wait a couple of weeks before I can pick up a tripod.. going to get a decent one.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Yay for binos!!
I use mine heaps. Love lazing back and just touring the night sky with them.
oh oh, I don't know if anyone has told you, you can purchase through IIS, the year book, Astronomy 2012. It's THE must have ephemeris.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...astronomy+2012

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Hi Matt , I started with a pair of 8x40 binos years and years ago , mowed laws, washed cars for 1 year to buy these and loved them ,
I was full on learning the sky and how it moved , fun times !
A friends father took pity on me and fabricated a bracket to mount my binos on an old painters easel they had , wobbled something terrible ,,, but better than hand held and those 8x40s on that easel showed me jupiters moons , his cloud bands , and saturns rings for the first time countless deep sky objects I was learning there names . I cant for the life of me remember the brand name and should never had sold them for a 60mm department scope !! .Wish some one had told me the mistake!
But now my love of the night sky is as strong as ever and I work hard and own a few nice scopes ,
So Matt as every one here has said , get Bino's and learn .
that way it will become a hobbie for life.
Brian.

Originally Posted by Intergage

Hey, thanks for your reply and thanks for your advice.

I am surprised yet, don't doubt your advice.
I can cancel it hopefully tomorrow.. Hopefully I can get to them before they ship it off.

I'm still trying to grasp the concept of binocular being able to see things like far off moons etc.. Like I said in the OP I only started reading up and started learning today. I have a pair of crappy binocular at home I'm going to go out and test tonight with this map I found.

http://media.skyandtelescope.com/doc...artedSouth.pdf

Thanks for your help once again.

[Intergage (Matt)]

Originally Posted by brian nordstrom

Hi Matt , I started with a pair of 8x40 binos years and years ago , mowed laws, washed cars for 1 year to buy these and loved them ,
I was full on learning the sky and how it moved , fun times !
A friends father took pity on me and fabricated a bracket to mount my binos on an old painters easel they had , wobbled something terrible ,,, but better than hand held and those 8x40s on that easel showed me jupiters moons , his cloud bands , and saturns rings for the first time countless deep sky objects I was learning there names . I cant for the life of me remember the brand name and should never had sold them for a 60mm department scope !! .Wish some one had told me the mistake!
But now my love of the night sky is as strong as ever and I work hard and own a few nice scopes ,
So Matt as every one here has said , get Bino's and learn .
that way it will become a hobbie for life.
Brian.

Taking the bino's and scope to Dakibin tonight to my girlfriends place.. If the sky is clear going to take it out to the school oval right behind her house or go up north a little bit to the bush somewhere and take a look1

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Hi Matt,
I know the wee 114 is not a serious scope but you would be surprised how much you can see in it even in suburban skies and it will make you appreciate a bigger scope. It could also be converted quite easily to a small travel dob when you don't have room for a big scope to go. I also modifed the thick spider vanes on mine to a much smaller profile which improved viewing no end and regard it as my experimental setup. But then again I only paid $50 for it secondhand.
I also mount mine on the EQ6 mount when I can't be bothered setting the 10" up and intend on using it with webcam for planetary imaging later. It is light enough that I could carry it on the EQ6 with the 10" as well so more things to play with. It's all part of the learning curve, enjoy !

>Suzy, that was an entire course in Astronomy in two posts !! Where do you get all this stuff ?? I've flagged it for further investigation later, bits I didn't know about. Thanks again ...!!

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Matt ,m lucky you .
Its cloudy and stormy here up north , the build UP . 5 months of Monsoons . Go for it . as I said a hobby of a life time . with a Jupiter , saturn and mars .

Hope you enjoy .
Brian..