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Thread: Learn from this rookie mistake
- 07-29-2012, 09:46 PM #11
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Re: Learn from this rookie mistake
Minnesota? Yeah, I remember those skeeters. . .
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- 07-30-2012, 12:16 AM #12
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Re: Learn from this rookie mistake
~John
'Using' a Celestron 10" NGT on a CG-5 with a Nikon D5100... using means LEARNING, but I'm enjoying the process!
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- 07-30-2012, 12:19 AM #13
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Re: Learn from this rookie mistake
I haven't been out this whole summer. With school, work, and poor conditions I just haven't made it out.
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- 07-30-2012, 12:31 AM #14
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I understand that completely. I purchased my scope the end of November of last year, used it once and then looked at it every day for three quarters of a year before making a concentrated effort to get out and use it... Three little ones six and younger but fortunately done with school now. Originally Posted by Cladinator ~John
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- 07-30-2012, 12:42 AM #15
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Been there done that... my variation.... arise at 4 am from a toasty warm bed. Step outside. Splendid heavens and apparently not too cold. Throw on a pair of jeans and sock less sneakers in my haste to grab the scope and get outside. Half an hour later and it feels like onset pneumonia!
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- 07-30-2012, 12:50 AM #16
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Ipswich - well known as the biggest variation day/night temp - you should know better by now Lloyd!! lol - 'specially in winter!
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- 07-30-2012, 12:56 AM #17
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Yes I should have know better, but often enthusiasm trumps knowledge and even experience!
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- 07-30-2012, 02:21 AM #18
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I'm just enjoying the summer while it lasts. It may not be the best viewing ever, but at least I don't have to worry about my fingers going numb or my eyeball sticking to the glass.
- 07-30-2012, 01:33 PM #19
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Colorado is like that, you can have a 30* drop overnight. I believe we're one of the few place where it could be 80* today with 1-3 inches of snow overnight. Also, as you go up in altitude, the transparancy gets better, but the temperature drops like a rock.
- 07-30-2012, 02:50 PM #20
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Re: Learn from this rookie mistake
My feet and ankles are littered with mosquito bites. Gonna have to at least put some socks on next time.
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