Drought breaker apology

[jinxsta]

Hi have to apologise for the cloudy skies just bought my first telescope and well 4 nights of rain is driving me nuts the scopes in the corner with the new scope smell.Maybe some suggestions as to what to do to please the gods.
Well at least I get to read all the advise in the forum first.

Jinxsta

[spearo (Frank)]

Welcome to IIS Jinxta,
Suggest you now go and buy yourself a rain water tank and hook it up to collect rain from the rooftop...
that's sure to help!

frank

[Ric]

Hi Jinxsta and welcome to IIS .

You'll get used to it, I had to wait two weeks for the sky to clear when I bought my new scope .

Congrats on the new scope, what type is it?

Cheers

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by jinxsta

the scopes all new with a new scope smell.

Hi Jinxsta,

I have had my GS 12" dob for over a year and a half or 2 years (I forget), and it still has that 'New' smell inside the tube!!!!

It's been carted around, left out to be covered in ice several times (quite a lot actually), cleaned several times (tube, as well as mirrors), covered in dust and dusted regularly etc.

The 'new' smell just never seems to go away.

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi jinxsta and to IceInSpace!

What did you buy?

[jinxsta]

Its a guan sheng 8 inch reflector with eq mount.
while I was in newcastle yesterday I picked up
a 2x barlow to go with the plossi eyethingymebobs
and there was heaps of other goodies there hopefully
santa will bring me some.

Jinxsta

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

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Suggest you now go and buy yourself a rain water tank and hook it up to collect rain from the rooftop...
that's sure to help!

It worked for me, took 4 weeks to get a drop in mine

Bill

[jinxsta]

I like the water tank idea but we are on tank water here and the tank is full guess thats why it keeps raining lol.
anyhow having a good read of the site.

Jinxsta