I only Met Ian about 6 months ago for the first time, we spoke about my dome and ways to improve it, this was while my scope was being checked out,to see if I had done things right
Yes he still has the 30", although he has moved to a new location now 20km further north of Stockport from memory. The 20" is now in the big dome with an 18" in the smaller one, also a 15" dob under a shed.
Last night was CLOUDY as hell, if you could find a clearing you bet your bottom dollar about 20 scopes pointed to that spot at the same time. I had a chance to look through a C11 lastnight, what I saw was very nice, although the atmosphere was crap. Spent more time talking about the mechanics of the scope. Some scopes up there were a Meade LXD-55 SN10, another 10" with a beefier mount which looked like a white CG5. The C11-xlt, an 8" dob, numerous F4 8" scopes a little 4" newt on a goto mount. aswell as the other permanant scopes. I got to spend some time on the 15", although the EP was rubbish, the views were still good, I was moving it around the cross and centaurus aswell as scorpius, which had many public visitors ooooing and ahhhhhhing.
Came home and was in bed by 10:30pm
Got me out of the house at least.