Welcome to the fold JohnG ............

[h0ughy]

:welcome: JohnG (who is now missing a celestron 8" SCT ;) ) Glad I talked you into joining IIS. You will find we don't bight, scratch or steal, but we do often "critique":thumbsup: each other in a harmonious manner.

We love images so feel free to post them :)

Read up on the sites' rules and regs and get to it. You should have some time now without a scope for a few weeks :lol: . :wink2:

[ving]

welcome aboard john g. :)

[JohnG]

Thank you for the welcome. Ah, but I still have the Tak FS-102, no way would I go without having some sort of scope. Enjoy the C-8, hOughy, you have got at least 2 weeks of rain ahead, the dreaded new equipment curse. (BG)

JohnG

[Robert_T]

:gday: welcome John... ahh a Tak FS-102 :zzz:

what you got that mounted on?

cheers,

[JohnG]

The Tak is permanently mounted on a Losmandy GM-8 with Gemini. Made for each other, with an 11lb weight, you can have the counterbalance up nice and high on the bar.


JohnG

[RB]

Welcome JohnG, glad you've joined our group.
Enjoy your stay, we're all a bit nutty around here, except for Houghy who keeps us all in line :lol: :lol: :lol: .


Hope to see some of your images.

:welcome: :hi: :clap:

Very nice scope BTW.

[h0ughy]

Thats OK, full moon and no mounting plates yet. as long as it is cool and clear for lostock ;)

[JohnG]

Thank you, have been known to do some pretty nutty things, hanging out of helicopters, off cliffs, the Harbour Bridge to name few. I have just started back into imaging, so easy now with EOS 350D DSLR. When I get a bit better I will post them.

[h0ughy]

Yes and now you've joined an elite class of astronomers, look at us were are all normal..... :lol: :)

[JohnG]

This is an image taken a couple of nights ago with the Tak, I need to still do a little work on my focus.

JohnG

[h0ughy]

Beautiful John, absolutely beautiful, can you send me a full sized image to have a look at ?

Start a new post in deep sky section and upload the image there John

[acropolite]

Welcome to IIS JohnG. Nice image, focus looks fine to me.:D

[h0ughy]

I agree Phil, even after a few :drink: :drink: :drink: it looks fine and sharp to me ;)

[Robert_T]

sounds like a MAGIC combination! I'm insanely jealous (and, obviously, greedy as well).
:wink2: one day I'll get myself a nice apo and Losmandy combo:prey: