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Whooaah! This thread certainly has been busy in the last 24 hours. You guys were doing my head in with the dark side! I see the light by the way, and I'm walking towards it... What I can't see, I'll imagine, or Google (or Look at Rob's pics, I seem to be stalking his web page regularly!). Thankyou for your views from the dark side though.. but I have much to learn, and I want to maintain visual astronomy. You'll do raise a very good point with being able to see so much more in suburbia. But, I just love the rush I get hugging my dob with my eye jammed into an eye piece feeling like I've just put my head into the window of space, nothing around me except for the pure darkness and wonders of space between my eye and eyepiece. And then whilst your being mesmerised at the wonders and endlessness of space, amongst the eerie strange noises coming from the bushes in the wee hours of the morning, a shooting star with immense speed blazes a trail straight across your eyepiece, and it makes you jump back and you realise how much more aware you are of every sound, as Earth seems so far away...
As for the filters, thank you all for your input. Gosh what an entertaining debate that turned out to be.
And poor Ron copped it by defending visual astronomy- and didn't that turn out into another debate. Sorry Ron!
And then the Planetary Nebs.. Thankyou all for your input. I'm excited that I have a list of what appears to be achievable thru my scope. If only the bad weather would buzz off. I bought a Vixen LVW, and there it has sat for the last week and all I can do is look at it and hold it. My Pentax XW has only seen one good run and I got that a month ago. *Sigh* (we need a "sigh" emoticon!) I think a lot of us here have been buying too much lately, judging by the busy for sale forum here! Stop buying everyone, so the weather can clear!
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