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Originally Posted by RB
LOL, you know it's going to be a great night when you see "The Houghy Express" roll into town !!!
He said "I'll be there at 6PM".....I said "great I'll take you out to dinner before we get started"......."Oh nah thanks mate, it'll take me all night to setup"......and it did, we just got organised as the eclipse started 
What a great time it was, Houghy got to meet my family and they all loved him especially after hearing so much about him.
My wife said "he's like a big cuddly teddy bear" !!
And talk about "a kid in a lolly shop", just give Houghy a green laser and he's in wonderland...... 
At mid eclipse I woke my family up and they came out to have a look and they couldn't believe how clear it was and how spectacular the moon looked.
They all commented on how many stars they could see too.
It was a great night, thanks for coming up David it made the evening sooo much more enjoyable.
Here's a single shot using the 5DII and the 300mm L and 2x tele extender yielding 600mm, on David's tripod and Astrotrac mount.
If I knew the weather was going to be so clear I would've set up the big scope, oh well it was a great night anyway.
RB |
a cuddly teady bear? OMG
Andrew as i said i thouroughly enjoyed the time - and it tends to go quickly when you get tinkering
I did really want RB to have set up the big scope but the weather was indeed dodgy
- we were so lucky it cleared the way it did. but man -the dew was running in torrents.
so did you like the astrotrac RB?
