I've finally done it!

Jim wrote:

M27, tonight you shall be mine...

And indeed it was. Another personal first. Ten minutes after that the
clouds rolled in.

I hate this country sometimes.

Jim
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Jim wrote:

M27, tonight you shall be mine...

And indeed it was. Another personal first. Ten minutes after that the
clouds rolled in.

I hate this country sometimes.

Jim

Only sometimes?

Martin

"Jim" wrote in message
. ..
Jim wrote:

M27, tonight you shall be mine...

And indeed it was. Another personal first. Ten minutes after that the
clouds rolled in.

I hate this country sometimes.

Jim

Only sometimes?

Martin

Well done!

I managed do split the double-double last Wednesday with my new Tal 100RS.
Couldn't do it during the heat wave when the sky was caccy and hazy!

I also had my first look at M27. Very impressive. A lot brighter than I
imagined it would be!

Just can't understand why Patrick Moore listed Vulpecula as a constellation
with nothing of interest in his 'Observers Book of Astronomy'!


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Nothing special you understand, but about five minutes ago for the first
time *ever* I've finally managed to split the double-double in Lyra.
I've always failed at this for one reason or another, but I got the
begger tonight.

Sad, eh?

M27, tonight you shall be mine...

Jim
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laws of right and wrong break down; beyond those metaphysical
event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons


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Well done!

I managed do split the double-double last Wednesday with my new Tal 100RS.
Couldn't do it during the heat wave when the sky was caccy and hazy!

I also had my first look at M27. Very impressive. A lot brighter than I
imagined it would be!

Just can't understand why Patrick Moore listed Vulpecula as a constellation
with nothing of interest in his 'Observers Book of Astronomy'!


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Nothing special you understand, but about five minutes ago for the first
time *ever* I've finally managed to split the double-double in Lyra.
I've always failed at this for one reason or another, but I got the
begger tonight.

Sad, eh?

M27, tonight you shall be mine...

Jim
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"We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal
laws of right and wrong break down; beyond those metaphysical
event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons


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Yunus wrote:

I managed do split the double-double last Wednesday with my new Tal 100RS.
Couldn't do it during the heat wave when the sky was caccy and hazy!

Bad seeing and bad collimation have always scuppered me in the past, but
last night my collimation was nigh-on perfect and the seeing was
wonderful. For 30 glorious minutes.

I also had my first look at M27. Very impressive. A lot brighter than I
imagined it would be!

Yes - I've actually seen it once before but my 'scope was so badly out
of whack that it probably lost at least a magnitude, reducing M27 to
just a very faint smudge. Last night it was quite bright and the sky
wasn't even fully dark!

Just can't understand why Patrick Moore listed Vulpecula as a constellation
with nothing of interest in his 'Observers Book of Astronomy'!

I think it's because I, at least, tend to think of M27 as being a Cygnus
object. I find it by forming a rectangle with epsilon Cyg, gamma Cyg and
beta Cyg (Alberio), with M27 being the final point.

Had a go at Mars as well but it was too low to resolve even the polar
caps - you could *see* the warm air streams rushing through the image,
looking almost exactly like a water current.

Jim
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"We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal
laws of right and wrong break down; beyond those metaphysical
event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons

Yunus wrote:

I managed do split the double-double last Wednesday with my new Tal 100RS.
Couldn't do it during the heat wave when the sky was caccy and hazy!

Bad seeing and bad collimation have always scuppered me in the past, but
last night my collimation was nigh-on perfect and the seeing was
wonderful. For 30 glorious minutes.

I also had my first look at M27. Very impressive. A lot brighter than I
imagined it would be!

Yes - I've actually seen it once before but my 'scope was so badly out
of whack that it probably lost at least a magnitude, reducing M27 to
just a very faint smudge. Last night it was quite bright and the sky
wasn't even fully dark!

Just can't understand why Patrick Moore listed Vulpecula as a constellation
with nothing of interest in his 'Observers Book of Astronomy'!

I think it's because I, at least, tend to think of M27 as being a Cygnus
object. I find it by forming a rectangle with epsilon Cyg, gamma Cyg and
beta Cyg (Alberio), with M27 being the final point.

Had a go at Mars as well but it was too low to resolve even the polar
caps - you could *see* the warm air streams rushing through the image,
looking almost exactly like a water current.

Jim
--
AIM/iChat:JCAndrew2 - now with iSight!
"We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal
laws of right and wrong break down; beyond those metaphysical
event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons