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[Meade bloke]

Hi there , saw the site while searching for astronomy info, had a look now the hard part reading up on past posts to get a feel of it all.

Cheers Spud.:)

[[1ponders]]

:hi: and :welcome: Spud. Care to share a bit more info about yourself? I gather you have a meade scope. What sort?

[h0ughy]

welcome, where are you and as paul said, whats your scope?

[Meade bloke]

Paul , I purchased a Meade starfinder with a magellan 1 from York optical second hand some years back , then found the control was u/s more money spent getting the next version controller sent over from the states with different motors gears encoders , fitted it all up made a blooper not ordering the software on cd , they sent it on flopys , work took a different direction so it went on the back burner , now things have changed so back into it , out of date but a scope is still a scope and one thing it has going for it is it is solid (heavy mind but paid for) so time to catch up as last time I used it on saturn it blew me away ,,

Cheers
Spud

Ps can I make this message box larger ??

[Ric]

Hi Spud and welcome to the group, great to see your getting back into it again. Saturn is one of those perfect objects to help fire up the interest again.

Cheers

[jjjnettie]

Hi Spud
Welcome to IIS.
What state are you from?

PS
The message box is as big as necessary, just keep typing and it will keep getting bigger.

[[1ponders]]

Under the quick reply message box, click on the "Go Advanced" button. That will give you a larger message box.

Is your Starfinder similar to these (http://www.meade.com/catalog/starfinder/12_16_starfinder.html):eyepop:. Now they are serious bits of telescope and mounts. Or do you have the dob version?

[Meade bloke]

^^^ Lol yes same as the top ones with the three leg base and set of weights for when your feeling like a workout, only difference is in aperature , :( Currently in the state that is quickly going up in smoke , not good ..

Cheers

Spud

[RB]

:welcome: to IIS Spud, enjoy your stay.

[iceman]

Hi Spud

:welcome: to IIS!

[acropolite]

G'day Spud, welcome to IIS. :D