Mike Meynell
Mike Meynell
@mikem
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Joined: Jun 19, 2020
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

We've had to cancel tonight's session as well, unfortunately. Forecast looks dreadful. We will try to reschedule to a later date.

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

How you get such a rich starfield from Blackheath is always amazing. Thanks Tej... but not on this occasion. These images are from my trip down to Ro...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

Definitely not running the Blackheath observing event this evening (Friday). We will try tomorrow, though it looks doubtful to be honest. Go/no-go de...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

I particularly like the diffraction patterns around the brighter stars. Thanks Clive. This is an optical effect of using the 50mm lens, which has an...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

Certainly was a good evening. I went down to Romney and got a few images... didn't stay late enough to see the comet though. All taken with a Canon 6...

7 years ago
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RE: Top television

science fiction writer Stephen Baxter whose specialisation is starship design, apparently Hmmmm... is there much call for this line of work? Asking f...

7 years ago
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RE: December stargazing event @ Blackheath

Friday it is. Go/no-go decision at 4pm tomorrow evening.

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

It's possible that one of the battery cells is failing, or is depleting faster than the others. Difficult to know... but all batteries degrade over ti...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

I seem to have a problem with my Kendrick controller not drawing power from the Tracer after a couple hours elapsed time This could be because of vo...

7 years ago
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RE: December stargazing event @ Blackheath

I think we can be certain that we will target Friday instead of Saturday... but we wouldn't make the final "go/no-go" decision until the day of the ev...

7 years ago
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RE: December stargazing event @ Blackheath

I agree... if it's going to be any day, it'll be Friday. Not holding out too much hope though... the forecast still looks poor! If we have to cancel ...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

Based on some of the images that I've seen published today, the comet doesn't look very bright at all (mag 5 or 6 maybe? - difficult to tell). Defini...

7 years ago
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RE: Clear Skies!...So whats on sky?

Any luck seeing Catalina, Tej?

7 years ago
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RE: You've got to be kidding...

Unfortunately it has been picked up and spoofed by Aldi who advertise a telescope cheaper. Both companies conning customers??!! You're right, Brian....

7 years ago
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