h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So here is some Moon, at 5 this morning. At 40x, pretty decent

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2398/2061817142_4a48df84c6_b.jpg

At 120x, not so good

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2077/2061037867_194a67ce9c_b.jpg

I had a go at 200x, but couldn't focus (plus ça change)

We like tha Moon!!!

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

zdt

There can never be any reason not to link to that.

Wow, nice photos!

Wish I had a telescope. We had one when I was a kid- my sister and I got it for an Xmas gift- but we never got to use it. It just sat in a corner collecting dust.

Cute video, too.

This one's likely to do the same, I think. Once you've spent over an hour trying to fix on something that keeps wobbling in and out of view, it gets so you just end up wanting to Google "Hubble pictures".

To be honest, if I had one, I'd likely use it once or twice and then forget about it myself. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything that sounds cool in theory but can be frustrating in execution.

For the 120X...I guess you're needing a motorised equitorial mount .

I've just tried to upload my first YouTube to share with you...but it's >100Mb and I can't install their uploader on my work laptop. Watch this space. Well...not *this* space, obviously...my space.

<<<.I guess you're needing a motorised equitorial mount>>>

Edward, i am ashamed of you, fancy introducing smut onto a perfectly innocent thread.

zdt

Those Kenyan bionic horses pack quite a kick. I think this translates as "better telescope", really; what I think I need is Ritchie Chretiens' programmable 32 incher.

Ye gods: the bind moggles!!!!

I reckon you should email Patrick Moore & ask his advice. If you don't feel up to risking loopy BBC astonomers, try Galaxy Babe on here, she knows a lot about celestial stuff (& isn't 83 & nutty as a fruitcake...yet!)

zdt

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