[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

you can get to 13th mag with a Seestar now

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

They are both owned by the same company, Orion bought Meade last time out.

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

Unfortunately as a deep sky visual observer I would say that the best has passed. We rarely, if ever now, get the transparent skies we used to and the skies are often murky, I guess with more water vapour and particulates for the light pollution to scatter off. Even those dark sky sites that we go to star aprties at the skies are now poor at best.

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

Ta – still trying to hold the BAA together from Orkney then 🙂

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

Is there a date when the electronic version of the Handbook is due out? It seems the paper versions are out.

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

I like the one were an asteroid was described as 33 armadillos in length 🙂

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

I think you will find it is Starlight Nights not Skylight lights

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

I would suggest asking Bob Argyle who heads up the Webb Society double star section as he is probably the best expert on double stars in the UK and is a frequent observer of these things.

[Mr Owen Michael Brazell]

It seems the April journal has gone up but with a very strange name. It looks like something may have gone wrong there too.

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