JPB Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I just wanted to say Hi and introduce myself, my names is James and I have been interested in astronomy for 30 plus years, I drifted away a bit over recent years but now I have more free time I have got back into it again. I Live in a rural area not to far from Melton Mowbray so I have a pretty good observing site, no street lighting around just the glare from Melton about 3 miles away. I have been very interested in comets which really got started after seeing comet Hale Bopp a lot of years ago. I also did several of the open university courses on astronomy what seems now a very long time ago to brush up on the science. I have just got a very nice christmas present a skywatcher esprit 100ed with a Heq6 - R mount and i still have my old heq5 mount which I have been using with a williams optics zenithstar 73 for some wide field astrophotography which I have just started doing although i still get a buzz out of just observing. Just need a few clear nights....... Happy New Year, James +Bino-viewer, tuckstar and Bottletopburly 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottletopburly Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Welcome James , 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Welcome James. Santa was good to you, a nice scope you have there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hi James and welcome to EMS 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Welcome James, you are very near our dark site at Wymeswold! A nice bit of kit you've got, look forward to meeting you at some point.. Cheers Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckstar Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hi James, welcome aboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Barry Gowans Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hi James. Very nice Christmas pressie 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hi James, a warm welcome to the forum. That's some nice glass you have there and a mount to match, lovely. Make yourself at home and have a look round. Any questions you have, then please feel free to ask away, someone will help out. I look forward to meeting you sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hi James, i'm Rob (think all the gear, no idea ! 😀) Welcome to EMS. Hopefully bump into you up at Wymeswold someday....?? I see you are a comet chaser ; have you had any luck with Panstarrs ? It still eludes me, although its been over a month since i last had a chance to hunt for it, the weather here is so bad. Currently its in Perseus, pretty high in the sky, and has brightened a touch to Mag +9.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPB Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 On 01/01/2020 at 22:43, Bino-viewer said: Hi James, i'm Rob (think all the gear, no idea ! 😀) Welcome to EMS. Hopefully bump into you up at Wymeswold someday....?? I see you are a comet chaser ; have you had any luck with Panstarrs ? It still eludes me, although its been over a month since i last had a chance to hunt for it, the weather here is so bad. Currently its in Perseus, pretty high in the sky, and has brightened a touch to Mag +9.5 Hi Rob, No luck with Panstarrs so far, there hasn't been a clear sky for weeks, I did manage to grab a few hours a few days ago but the conditions were very poor. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPB Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Thanks everyone for the welcome..... BAZ and tuckstar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Hi James welcome to the EMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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