Astro Nut » Uncategorized http://www.astro-nut.net One Man's Adventure In To Space Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:53:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Try Before You Buy http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/07/30/try-before-you-buy/ http://www.astro-nut.net/2008/07/30/try-before-you-buy/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:03:39 +0000 Russ http://www.astro-nut.net/?p=79 The best bit of advice I can give you about purchasing new equipment is to
try before you buy!
My Astro Hut is full of stuff I wish had never bought.
Eyepieces, worthless filters and bits and pieces of hardware.
Most of the equipment in this hobby such a personal choice.
Your choice of equipment all depends on how and what you’re going to do with it.

So before you go and shell out your hard-earned money, visit your local astronomy club.
Go to one of the local star parties.
Or visit one of the plethora of online forums.
GET INFORMED!

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Cluster in Hercules
M13 120
This is 1 15 second sub.

We had a bad storm come through yesterday.
I did not think I would get any scope time….
But I looked out around 10:30 and we had clear sky’s.
So out the the BackYard Observatory I went.

M13 is one of my favorite objects to observe.
From a dark site and a clear night you can naked eye see it
and its a wonderful binocular target!

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Last night I also managed to to get a couple of subs of M5

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