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Originally Posted by DavidU
My scopes are just sitting in the garage becoming vintage telescopes with hardly any use !
I feel for you Sab, nice new 12" dob........little use..........nuclear winter.....
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Surprisingly enough I got some good use out of it since taking delivery, all within a month of the late April pick up date. It's been through some of the crappiest dew imaginable and got enough sessions in to get the hang of it and notice the improvement in performance over the original scope even though the optics are exactly the same
But I hadn't been able to use it on Jupiter, and now we are entering mid-season (last time i was out, Jupiter didn't even make it to the meridian before sunrise)......puts it in perspective
I have a theory....u know how british people settled Melbourne... I have formulated a possible explaination for our vastly innappropriate locale...I do believe that those British folk were trying to replicate their homeland climate. Boy howdy how well they have succeeded.
If it was me, I would've settled Port Hedland or Broome. Now those climates are to bloody die for
Some other places named Melbourne are also incidentally in terminally cloudy and/or climatically stuffed locations:
e.g. Melbourne, Nova Scotia. (Nova Scotia = Canadian Victoria)
Melbourne, Derbyshire UK. (UK = European Victoria)
Mount Melbourne, Antarctica (Antarctica = Earthian Victoria)
Melbourne, California. (right on the coast north of San Fran... an infamously cold and foggy/cloudy area)
Cheers for that global warming.
