Telescope name change

[LewisM]

Renamed my darling FSQ-106N today to "Cricket"...because all I hear is cricket's chirping waiting to use the poor thing here in the land of Cloud and Dust...

I see why some people just give up altogether (I could never do that). Every single night that has been clear, it's either been a Moon (no good imaging), or I just finished a 12 hour work day and just too damned tired to bother.

Gotta pull the trigger finally and buy the STC Duo-Narrowband filter for the OSC - as much as I dislike NB imaging, I think I just have to swallow that pill...I can NEVER go mono due to the simple fact of so few capture moments.

[RB]

Why don't you just call it "an innings"?

:lol:

[xelasnave]

Hi Lewis
You are correct...there are so few opportunities...however narrow band is rather cool☺.
I was going to ask why you just did not give your scopes numbers and then I realised "cricket" probably would be shorter☺.
Get your next thing ... it makes you happy right and really the game is not as expensive as some...
Alex

[LewisM]

I'll under-arm bowl you in a minute...

[LewisM]

Nope - this is finally my final telescope - owned it for a record - for me - time now. It's not going anywhere.

Took a LOT of scopes to get to this point of complete satisfaction, but I am there - and it is fluorite - so nirvana :P

[RB]

:lol:

Good one Trevor.

:P

[xelasnave]

But if you were to get something else what would it be☺
Alex

[multiweb]

Mine's pretty much been acting as an expensive door stop for the past 6 months as well... and I can hear the crickets as well, or maybe they're frogs... yeah I think they're frogs... :sadeyes:

[RB]

Frogs :lol: :thumbsup:

Houghy calls my 150 a “door stop” too.
Maybe I should call it my Greek Kabab.

:lol:

[JA]

Then maybe go for "Omega" as its name

Best
JA

[multiweb]

Gotta agree that fluorite does give some very nice color saturation. I've gone directly from vivid green to homer radioactive fluoro green. :evil:

[JeniSkunk]

Even though my small scope is far less expensive or capable than yours, Marc, mine hasn't had much use over the past 5 or so months here in Brisbane.
Around my place, it's crickets, mosquitoes, cane toads, and geckos that I hear at night.
I've still not managed to think of a name for my scope.

[LewisM]

I know right - even I can make half-decent images :P

Maybe...

[sharpiel]

You live in Canberra so maybe “Hot Air”...

Fill those bright nights with moon shoots young man...I mean what variety old Luna offers. Every night so different...

[muletopia]

Gee I get twitchy after 3-4 consecutive nights of clouds, luckily a rare event here.
The painful periods are at seeding and harvest when the appropriate machinery drives all night with massive LED illumination. Still my immediate neighbors only take 2-3 24 hour days for these operations.


So solution, move to the bush. I did and took my job with me.

Chris

[Shano592]

Yeah, but it's always windy there! :lol2:

[theodog]

Buy a rain gauge.:) I've got one here (and there are plenty of others in CW NSW) that've been practically unused lately. :shrug:

[Wavytone]

Lewis the “big wet” in 1991-2 caused me to ditch all my gear - in Sydney it was raining or overcast every weekend without fail for 18 months straight.

Took up another hobby instead. And didn’t buy another scope until 2007.

[Octane]

I'll call mine Webby. Webby and Crickets.

H

[Slawomir]

Great to hear Lewis. I was also hoping to get a 106, but for a number of reasons I wanted a brand new one, so eventually had to settle for a cheaper alternative.

I'm wondering, given your extensive experience with a significant number of refractors, whether changing your telescope's name is a substitute for changing the telescope itself...;)

[LewisM]

It's a proxy answer :P

[JeniSkunk]

It's weird how one's mind makes connections when trying to come up with a name for a device.
A few days ago, I was reading a post by Atmos, and looked at the equipment listed in his signature. For some reason, this time, one line in it stood out. "EQ6 + HEQ5 (White and Black)".
Thinking about that, I switched it around to the order it's normally said in. Black & White. Then for some reason, I thought of the blended scotch whisky. From there, it was easy to make the connections to name my scope. SkyWatcher, SW, Scotch Whisky.