You sound like you had a fabulous time Liz, despite the cold

. As I found out recently, my eyes will not focus properly when temp is 4 deg (so forget 0 deg for me)

- everything is fuzzy! (both naked eye & viewing thru scope). Frozen eyeball sydrome

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And woah Liz, how about your ep!!! That's now two stories I've read this week on here from melted EPs from solar viewing

. Those Vixens are like grenades, I'm trying to picture a melted one .. errr, any pics?

Is this the Vixen LVW you recently bought? How did (oooh past tense) you find it?
Hope your thumb didn't get burnt too badly, is it blistered? Dangerous hobby that one. One, that I never plan on gettting into, just too scared.