Cloudy again
I dont mean my piss either.

Since I was eight a wanted a telescope. A decent one. I could never really justify it though, living in London, and Luton is just as bad, with the orange glow stopping everything.

However, I succumbed last year and bought a precision, british made 140mm Maksukov. It's great. Unfortuatley It is a bit heavy on the tripod to lug around to decent sites easily. I also swear there has not been a decent clear night since I bought it. Yes, it's clear when I leave work, but there is allways a fecking great cloud over Luton when I get home.

I took it to Wales and it rained every night, which is not really a news item. I am taking it to Northumberland in June on hols. I am keeping my fingers crossed on that one.

I have slightly exagerated, whenever I am too drunk to use the scope properly, if I look out of the window, there are all the stars I could wish for, twinkling merrily and pouring scorn on my lack of commitment, bastards.

So there it is, the only dusted thing in my flat, taking up half the living room, and I love it to bits. Well worth waiting 42 years for I think.

PS. I move it to the side a bit when the Mistress Bartleby comes to stay. Even I am not that stupid.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:04, 7 replies)

Not exactly impulsive though
is it?
(Jugular, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:08, closed)

pretty much the opposite I'd say

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:31, closed)

Impulsive (just a bit)
Impulsive in that I could have waited until I lived somewhere a bit darker.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:50, closed)

If you take it to Northumberland
then go to Kielder. Not a streetlight for fucking miles. But be sure to bring your mozzie repellant. Those fuckers there go for bone marrow.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Thu 21 May 2009, 19:40, closed)

Mozzies
Thanks for the advice, I hate mozzies because they love me.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 May 2009, 7:03, closed)

I too have this problem
I got a nice 150mm Newtonian telescope at the end of last year.
I hastly built it and took it into the garden for a test drive.
Stunning views of the stars. Fabulous. Didn't exactly know what I was looking at though.
Went back in, read all the books. Watches the DVD and installed supplied software.
Got a few eyepieces for it and a barlow lens.
Got a T2 mount to put my camera on it.
Got a motorised tracking mount to take nice long exposure pictures.

I swear that every evening I've had free since then, it's been cloudy.
Sunny days - lovely. Not a cloud in the sky. It's because they're all waiting below the horizon to gather over my house as soon as it gets dark.
Bugger.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 22 May 2009, 16:46, closed)

I am not alone
It's good to know I'm not alone
1. A sky watching B3tan.
2. That I was imagining the cloudy thing.

Cheers KF Good luck.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 25 May 2009, 7:59, closed)