1st telescope...1st post

[davtan]

Hi All
My wife bought her 1st telescope yesterday a Bintel BT202 Dobsonian 200mm FL 1200 f6.0.
What a night for our 1st star gaze.The comet was awesome.
Was that a once in a lifetime experience???
My mate had a pair of 10/50 bino's which were even better then the scope to view the comet with.
Quite spectacular:eyepop: !!!!
By the look of the weather now, looks like we lucked out last night.:D

We live in the upper blue mountains where we have next to no light pollution so I guess we have lots of good viewing to look forward to.
Cheers Dave

[Ric]

Hi Dave and welcome to the group :thumbsup:.
Congratulations to your wife on her new scope, she has got it at a great time with the comet about, but there are a lot of other fantastic sights to keep you going for many years to come.
Having a dark site is a real added bonus as well.

Cheers

[leon]

Hi Dave, you certainly got the scope at a good time, but like Ric said, you will never run out of things to see, welcome to you and your wife.

Cheers Leon

[acropolite]

Hi Dave & welcome to IIS, you have lots of fun ahead, McNaught certainly has been great, despite the bad weather.

[astro_nutt]

Hi Dave and a big welcome to you and your wife and congrats with her new scope!!!
Good to hear you got to see McNuaght..as things are a bit cloudy down South!!..but wait till you catch Saturn..truely awesome!!
Cheers!

[rmcpb]

Dave, welcome to IIS :)

Your scope and site mean MANY (read infinite) brilliant nights of observing.

Cheers

[ving]

g'day dave :)
welcome aboard :)

great scope you have there :)

[robagar]

man, I hope you don't get too disillusioned when there *isn't* a spectacular comet in the sky ;)
(I'm just envious, still cloudy up here :(, congrats + :welcome:)

[jjjnettie]

Hi Dave,
Congratulations on the new scope. I hope your wife will be joining us on the forum. We need to boost the female membership, there are too few of us here.

[davtan]

Thanks for :welcome: everyone :thumbsup:

Well another day here in the mountains with lots of rain last night and NOW.
We have had TWO clear nights to see the comet since it appeared last week.We have clear days and then about 5pm in the afternoon the clouds roll in :( .

Here's hoping for another chance to see this great spectical.

Cheers Dave

[ballaratdragons]

:rofl: Another Dave!

That's make about 15!!!!! :lol:

Welcome 'Dave'.

[33South]

Hi Dave,

Welcome to another Blue Mountaineer and yet another Dave.

[ving]

thanks ken, but i have been here for quite a while....
Oh! That dave!!!! :P:screwy:

[chunkylad]

Hi Dave

Welcome to the IIS Daves club!!!:D

Good luck with the weather in your part of Oz mate, because it's bloo, er really awful up here atm.:doh:

Cheers

Dave W

[seeker372011]

welcome, and congratulations on a great choice of first scope!

[davtan]

Saw the comet last night after a week of cloud...fog...etc.Not as good as last Sat. night but still a sight to see.
Went home at 10:30 and my wife setup in the front yard....and you wouldn't believe but the 1st thing she finds was Saturn!She was so exited:D .

Thanks again for the welcome and see you all in space.

Cheers Dave

[Mr. Subatomic]

Hey Dave!

Hope you and your wife feel welcome here at ISS. It's a great scope you bought there, I have the 10" Bintel BT-252 model but unfortunantely, mine didn't come with the dark skies that you have. I mean, I can SEE the harbour bridge and Sydney CBD from my house! Oh well, as long as I stay up long enough It's pretty spectacular.

Welcome again!

[jonathank]

Hi Dave,
Enjoy your new scope!
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[Kay Star]

:newbie:
I'm new here and am kinda new to all this astrology but I have always loved the stars and now want to learn all about them if anyone has any ideas or pointers for me AWESOME....

thanks gus you rock!!!:thumbsup: :screwy: :rockband:

[mick pinner]

:) did someone say ASTROLOGY naughty naughty

[JethroB76]

Complaining is easy. Finding a way to ameliorate the situation so you have no cause for complaint is hard -- but in the end, its so much more satisfying. Don't take the easy way out. Work hard to get better....NEXT!

[Mr. Subatomic]

Step 1 of Astronomy.

Don't g around calling it astrology, there's a difference :)

[xelasnave]

Welcome Dave the 15th
Welcome Kaystar.
mmm a typo astronomers get decidedly funny when you say astrology.
I told a lady I was into astronomy and she said "öh hubby is into that.. no astrology..he came in "no both"..I left confused
alex