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I'm Bob. I'm an ex-research astrophysicist who's getting back into the fundamentals in semi-retirement working within my local community to hopefully drive engagement on astronomy.

These days I'm very involved with smart-scope astronomy: I have an eQuinox 2 (Jeffrey), a Seestar S50 (Elusippe) and an S30 on order (Ernestine), and hopefully will deck-out my Celestron SE8 (Herbert) as a narrow-field/SSO camera this year.

(All the scopes are named after great-grandparents --- so I can get 4 more right?)
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FILTERS, Nebustar 2 tele vue .Celestron uhc . Apm solar wedge . contrast booster 2 inches and 2 x 1,25 inche .
MOUNTS , cg-4 ,MANFROTO 028 B and fluide head 608 .
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Hello to you and the gang! Glad you joined us.

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∞ Primary Scopes: #1: Celestron CPC1100 #2: 8" f/7.5 Dob #3: CR150HD f/8 6" frac
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Hi Bob, and welcome here to the Forum!

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Nice intro, and nice naming concept as well. Yeah, you need another 4 scopes to complete the circle :D

Welcome to TSS, and looking forward to seeing your results.

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Hello and welcome to the group!

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Welcome aboard 😀
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Welcome to TSS Bob!
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Hello Bob

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Welcome indeed, cool you are getting back to the fun...

Best of luck and sies of course!
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