It’s Venus, which is not a star.
The Isaac Newton telescope got moved to to La Palma. Which is an extraordinary place to see the sky, if your lungs can cope.
Herstmonceux Castle - Wikipedia is well worth a visit if you are in the area., though it is mostly a school now with the science centre being the interest.
I would prefer a clear optic also, but I understand we can’t pick and choose everything. I am going to wait and see what the final specs are, and make may purchase decision accordingly. I’m buying no matter what, but the number is to be determined. An optic is simple to swap though.
By the way, I just checked the poll, and the XP-L has taken a narrow lead. Hooray!
Really??? 
. Excellent news. :+1:
Well as I see it what the poll then shows is that the intended market doesn’t have a clear preference. That makes the poll moot and it is the designer/manufacturer decision again (or, more correctly - still) as to what is used. Fine by me, I’ll love it regardless unless it has serious faults. What the poll might achieve though, is make it more likely that two options be made available. Winner winner chicken dinner, as they say.
Assuming you’re taking these pictures in the evening, then that bright object is Jupiter. Right now, it’s in the eastern/southeastern sky after sunset. Venus is in the west after sunset, for the next couple of months.
If possible to still get on the list for these, please count me in…
Yes
I like the smiley faces at top right.
PS: it’s called a torch, by all right-thinking people who understand English.
Though I drift off into Norse with my chums up north, my Dane girlfriend used to be most amused but kept up. Geordie = Norse.
Says the guy using stones as a unit of measure :person_facepalming:
For US-based folks who’d like to experiment with different Carclo optics, check out LEDsupply.
$1.50 Carclo triple optics 10507, 10508, 10509, 10510, and 10511
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Hey the U.K. might have a few leftover measurements from the stone age, but things have been largely metric in the English speaking world (along with everywhere else) since the 70’s except for certain former colonies waaaaaay over there to the left on the world map, who won’t budge an inch.
Tom Tom, I did not think you were so bigoted, until recently. Please keep in mind this is an international forum. We are from all over the world. For many people here, English might be their 2nd or 3rd language. Please try to be more tolerant of others, okay?
Also, when you say stuff like this I can’t tell if your joking or serious. I’m starting to think serious.
You make it not so pleasant when you say stuff like this or rant about shipping rates. I’m sure you think your country is the greatest in the world, but you have to remember that everyone thinks their country is the greatest.
Can we please focus on the lights and all get along? Thank you.
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LOL, just let them UK/Common Wealth folks call themselves names among each other, they will be juuuuust fine! :partying_face: :+1:
(lived in England for a while with two irishmen, one catholic from Dublin, one protestant from Belfast, have learned a few words that I was never taught in English class.)
I usually hang out on Reddit so I just now made an account here, but I’d like to get on the list please! Thanks everyone for your hard work on this!
Welcome to the forum. I’m sure Pepinfaxera will add you for one unit when he does his next update.
I’ve actually taken some video now with my d4 219c (approximating the cd of a lh351d fw3a) showing why I do not think any more throwiness than that is a useful thing even outdoors, and why floodiness might be. I have tested several scenarios; both distance shots and a variety of other ranges. I blindfolded one eye for 20-30 minutes before going outside, but as it turned out the camera wasn’t able to be made sensitive enough to match it. I got it as close as I could to the non-adapted eye’s sensitivity, but it didn’t quite reach that. I’m more of a stills photographer, so maybe there’s something I missed. All video clips were shot at the same exposures, the only auto setting was white balance.
Hells’ Bells. just get it made and delivered PDQ, however.
Done and dusted,
Then we can stop yacking about it.
It might be great, or not, but I’ll take that chance.
What should I have done for my beamshots to be better? Do a full auto picture, note the ISO and Aperture, switch to “Program Auto” and fix those values and let it auto everything else?