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Originally Posted by Dunc78
Looking forward to meeting everyone in a couple of weeks. Never been to one of these weekends but they sound great.
I am a bit of a newbie and have just been trying to teach myself astronomy this past year with some success and failure. I own a basic 6 inch dob but looking at upgrading soon so will be good to see a few different scopes in action to help me work out what I want/need. Unfortunately as i am coming straight from work and my car is full of baby seats so i wont be able to bring my scope on the weekend. I will be bringing my binoculars and tripod but if anyone can let me have a few moments on the end of their eyepiece it would be appreciated.
Hopefully my new SLR arrives also before that weekend so i will get a chance to do some nightscapes and astrophotography. Again if anyone wants to give me a couple of photography pointers I would be happy for any advice.
I'm a chef so happy to bribe people with food for some mentoring!!
Let's hope we have some clear skies and a fun weekend!!
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Don't worry about your lack of experience Duncan, there will be plenty of people willing to talk to and show you their scopes and let you look through them, plenty of imagers to help with the dark side as well, just ask....
Cheers John G