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What an interesting and well written piece.

Indeed. Over the years I've always found Mike's posts to be interesting, well written, and correctly punctuated!

Regards

Sounds like a couple of minutes well spent.

Cloud cleared around midnight near Stroud, Gloucestershire and like Mike says, could easily see the Double Cluster and a stunning Milky Way. Counted 136 Perseids and 3 sporadics between 12.50 and 3.15 BST when it clouded over again. Many pesistent ionised trains and a few really bright fizzers, one ...

Thanks Steve.

Many thanks Alastair. It was always a pleasure to receive your response to my reports. Big Thank You to Shelagh too of course.

Regards, Les.

Well done Eddie.

Always enjoy your knowledgable posts, astro news of your travels, and your contributions to this Forum.

All the best, Les.

Yay! Presume Garradd's an underwhelming grey smudge that 'adds up' to mag' 7.32, but actually looks fainter?

:shock: ... all adds to our wealth & depth of Experience. There really is no substitute for plugging away, working out what's gone wrong, and eventually winning the day (night)! Thanks for those Mike. I failed to 'win the day' with Garradd last night; It's the last refuge of the scoundrel to bla...

Thanks Mike,

Going to make my first Garradd attempt later this evening.

I must say I'm heartened to read your March 3rd tale of woe - so it's not just me who has occasional nights like that then?

Regards, Les.

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Caught the last 10 secs...

Blimey!

Thanks for your suggestion Brian. on top of the above, I've adapted the Celestron lead to a USB connection and tried a handset update under WinXP and Win7 (32 & 64bit), and also tried a straight through (and a reverse wired for luck) backplate off a COM header on my motherboard, all to no avail....

Great post David - cheered me right up

Cheers for fielding that one Geoff : ) I gave up battling and reluctantly bought the 'Enthusiast' V6.x after my last posting. It runs just fine in Win7 64bit (although with an ugly UAC shield in the desktop icon), but be warned folks... The Enthusiast version doesn't have a 'red screen' facility to ...

Same grot further up the coast Mike and cabin-fever is setting in - I haven't been outside observing since the recent Siberian -9* cold snap. Then, I hung on for seven hours to catch Saturn rising and when it did, it was behind a clump of trees and a mate's imaging set-up! Was at a 'do' on Saturday ...

Hi Folks. I'm having problems flash updating my CPC 1100's Nexstar handset, and could use some advice from experienced Nexstar Flashers. Oh err missus! I'm using a Windows7 64bit PC, and an after-market serial-usb adaptor from an Astro' supplier which shows up in Device Manager as 'USB Serial Port/ ...