Lancashire Lass

Haha my apologies OON. Freudian slip there. I know what I wanted to say but it came out wrong. I blame reading my star sign this morning. Anyway I'll go and put my teeth back in lol.

According to the NW V6 radar rain is increasingly turning to sleet/snow over North Lancs and East Lancs and South Cumbria

Yep same here Liam lol. Temp now down to 3.5c

GFS uppers for 6pm NMM uppers for 6pm GFS thickness for 6pm NMM thickness for 6pm

Ok snow risk for us here in the NW tonight? Will some of us see any of the elusive white stuff? Here's what GFS thinks at 6pm tonight And here's what NMM thinks at 6pm tonight

Yeah same here Liam. Temp 5.5c, dewpoint 3.6c. Dewpoints a lot lower the further East you go.

The moon and brighter planets sound good to me as a starting point. Baby steps and all that. I know my way reasonably well round a camera, just the astrology side I need to swot up on as some things are a bit fuzzy. I remember as a little girl my dad taking me out on the park to look at the stars and him taking me and my sister to the Planetarium in London which used to be next to Madame Tussauds. Once that seed is planted it's with you for life. My Canon is the EOS 300D which is a good 8 years old now and I think the equivalent now is the 600D. Think it's classed as an entry Level camera for the enthusiast but having said that it cost £735 8 years ago. My partner has the Nikon D300 and you won't get much change from 2 grand if you bought that. However as you say Canon have a fantastic range of lenses. I still have and use a 40 year old Konica S3 SLR. Fantastic little camera with a great lens. I don't think many were sold so I think ones still in working order are fairly rare. Anyway I'll let you know how we get on. Have you ever used Stellarium by the way?

Yeah bargain or what! Park cameras have it on sale for £39.99 and the accessory set was around a tenner so saved myself about £50! I inherited the Canon EOS off my partner when he upgraded to a Nikon but to be honest I think the Canon is a better camera so think I've done ok out of it :winky:

Dull damp and drizzly here as expected lol.

Cheers OON, that is one of the telescopes I was looking at. I have had a good look around and have found the telescope and accessory set (inc moon filter) as part of a bundle all for £53.47 inc p&p. Tesco books online have the book for £16 and I can also buy a Hama T2 adapter for my Canon EOS for £17. So I'm well under my £100.budget.

Any recommendations? Max budget £100. I've seen one on Amazon for £75 which gets good reviews as a starter telescope.

No way can I afford an Astrotrac sadly....maybe a second hand one. Will probably get my little boy a telescope anyway for his birthday though. Nothing too fancy though. Just to get him started.