Hey guys and girls, Ive found this site few days ago by looking in other forum called astronomyonline, iceinspace was mentioned so came to lurk around, I found this site very informative and decided to sign up...
btw, why didnt I sign up yesterday? It was my birthday
Brand spankin new,virgin (to astronomy)noob, with a little more money than sense from what i have just read.
Just bought myself a:
Guan Sheng GS-980-BK7-CRF
300mm x 1500mm reflector with 2" Crayford style focuser on a dobsonian mount.
with 4 Plossl ???? eyepieces
Moon Filter and a pair of binoculars (why ?)
For $1049 delivered.
I have been told that anything over 8" is is being greedy.... but ..... spent saturday night at the KOOLANG Observatory(is that right???) with their 500mm Dob and fell in love with it all...
After reading this forum i am installing cart da whatever it is called and have just bought some books on the subject from ebay!..
I would like to thank you guys for your information in advance....
toshi and frogtwat. Happy Birthday Toshi. This place is a good birthday present to give yourself
Sounds like your well on the way Anthony. 10 and 12" dobs are very popular 'round 'ere. Won't be long till all the dob owners are crawling out of the woodwork to offer you suggestion. (watch out for the one's suggesting new eyepieces. I'm sure they've all got shares in nagler and televue )
Where did you hear about us? You're from Kulnura, another local! Where do you observe?
Congrats on getting the 12", they're popping up like flies around here lately, almost overtaken the rush of 8"'ers that people bought a month or two ago.
Koolang observatory is a great place.. we should meet up one day soon!
IceMan cool by me ..... i need help and my toy isnt even here ye should be ariving this afternoon on wednesdayt...!
Ummm i have only observed once and that was at Koolang (20k away) and i will be setting up HERE on the property.... when the lights go out you can't see your hand in front of your face!
I live onsite (work) at The Paintball Place.
The boss said to me buy whatever you want from them (Andrews) and ill pay for it on the c/c you can do extra work around the property to pay it off woo hoo
I take it that Paintball Place is out of town in a dark area?
Tell us your impressions when the little boxes with your scope and stuff in them arrive.
The only hard bit is when you try to roll the sheetmetal into a tube! Fitting the mirrors in the right way is fairly easy, and assembling the Crayford focuser doesn't take more than 2-3 hours.
Good luck.
Last edited by ballaratdragons; 15-03-2005 at 10:58 AM.
Well done Ken you scared the s..t outa me
OHHH this waiting is KILLING ME !!! why done couriers work night shifts ???? Its at the Gosford depot. i can smell it. But .....just.....can't.....reach.....i t...!!!!
aren't couriers nasty people when you ask for an apropriate time for delivery