Oooop's yup! that helps, sorry fogot to mention that I used a 2mm drill bit.

[QUOTE=Eardrum73]oh yeah, and I was given the Australian Astronomy 2005 for free by Andrews... and they said that it can be used for 2006 as well as the stars will change very little? is this true? QUOTE]

Cool!, yup! the star chartsat least will be good for another 45yr until they do Epoch 2050.0 the stars move very little and it basically takes 50 years before they update the charts. But dont quote me on that it's just something I've come to believe. Not sure about most of the events though ie: comets, times of meteor shows, Jov luna events...etc...etc... Plus the outer planets move through the constellations. So it would be better to get 2006 when it comes out. However I dont use it as much as I did. It was great for getting you on track and learning the constellations and where most common/popular/bright objects are. In a couple of years if your still riding the wave of interests you'll find you'll be burried deep in print outs from cdc looking for the more exotic variety of objects. Still it's never usually to far away from the scope.

I tried for Mars around 3:00am this morning but, dang! just a tad too cold and bed looked more appealing. I get in these phases at the moment where I rather not observe in the moon light, Especially trying to trace down Cadwell objects. But I did nab comet 9/P Tempe last night about 7:30pm sitting just south of M62 in scorpius. It look more like what it looked like pre impact but with very very faint if at all coma and the nucleus was fading in and out.

regards, CS