Hello

Hi the name is Ciaran
Based in cork but hail from Kildare. Always had an interest since i was very young. bought the aldi telescope this week for the craic,its been raining since did a search to find out what was up for viewing this month and discovered this forum looks great very professional. i have read a couple of the articles and ye definitely know your stuff i'll let you know how the aldi special works out.
Ciaran

Hi Ciaran,
Welcome to our 'little' club! I am glad you like the hard work of the members here. Spread the word with your mates, get the word out there!

Seanie.

Welcome Ciaran.
You've learned the first lesson I see.
He who buys new scope will bring the rain.
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Do let us know how it works out.
BTW - which scope was it?

Hi its called an Optus 70 mm refractor i think.....
i had it out tonight for the first time for about a half hour only the clouds came in. jeezus was the moon bright tonight ,the street light is down in front of my house and i was in my hall walking back to my sitting room and said to my wife they must of fixed the light looked out and it was the moon i ran straight out the back with the telescope, ive had it set up in the middle of the kitchen waiting for the right moment eventually got it lined up took a bit of messing about because i didn't have my finder scope parallel with the main telescope, got that sorted and could hardly look at the moon it was so bright went down to the lowest eyepiece 9 mm and used the moon filter and it was perfect. it looked amazing i wish i could have taken a pic. i think i had some condensation as the edge of the view looked a bit like it had crystals on it but that didn't interfere with the view. what do you call the thing that will allow me to connect my camera to the telescope. i have a Olympus digital SLR

Hi Ciaran and welcome,
yea, the moon was high and full tonight, looking dazelling for sure.
You should give the club in Cork a visit, its nice to be around people who have a common interest.

I'll be checkin them out definitly I was gonna try make one or two of the lectures this year but job got in the way. I ment to say I switched to 20 mm not 9 mm newbies you just can't put up with them haha
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