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I love your tree Stephen.

Sorry we missed you live . Will watch tonight. Have a great Christmas Stephen and a happy New year. thank you for your hard work x

Great tree and quiz mr starman

Hey, and thanks for the nice review. How would something like this be to bring with me on shorter hikes to get to high points etc? Wouldnt wanna buy something that cant take any moving

thanks Stephen for another great video all the best 🎄🦌☃️🎅❄️🎁

Great live Stephen glad you enjoyed your Bass ☺️, we do have some lovely people on here, always like to be involved with the quiz, but not good at answering correctly lol 😆. Got two this week right. Hope you have a fab Christmas, take care bye for now 😊xx

Thanks for the live Stephen, really good, to you and everyone, have a merry Christmas. Cheers, 🥳🥳🎅🎅

Awesome image!!

Thank you for the info I will be out on both nights 🌙

Very nice but make a live with Geminid meteor shower

Great update starman thanks

Thanks Stephen, very interesting video 👍

I can speak from experience that it is definitely worth observing the Geminids, even with a full Moon in the sky. You will see fewer meteors than usual but the shower is so active that you will definitely see some over the course of the night. Ensure that the Moon is outside your field of view and you will see several every hour. Clear skies everyone! 😃

Hi Stephen. I've never had much luck weather wise with this meteor shower but I did see a few bright fireballs a few years back. The last time I saw the Perseids was in 2022, which was also during the full moon and I did actually see quite a number of meteors over a two hour period ( I would have seen more but fell asleep for about twenty minutes in the chair I was sitting in ) To be fair the moon was very low down and almost opposite to the radiant, with this year's Geminids, the moon is going to be a lot nearer to the radiant. I will still have a look though if the weather is ok, bright fireballs can be amazing, especially if they leave a trail.

Hi Stephen. Great photo.. What telescope did you use to photograph that?

Hi Stephen. Monday looks more encouraging for a bit of stargazing,

Nice on, Steve. Last year’s was amazing, although unfortunately it looks like we’ll be battling clouds as well as the moon this year. Hopefully we’ll get a decent stint, otherwise the Quadrantids in Jan should be better placed!

Brilliant that Stephen, thanks.

Interesting Geminid video. Thank you Stephen.

Hi Stephen, a great video. You explain everything so well. Thank you.xxxx

Hi Stephen just caught up. I'm sending this to our Paul again, he's very interested in the meteors,thanks for the information, take care 😊x

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Another great starman vid stephen

Hi Stephen. Sorry I missed your live stream . I had a day out with my brother, it was great meeting you and the Blackpool lads at the opening of the Christmas by the sea, I just got back to Berlin tonight, had a good journey back. maybe I will see you again next year. take care and all the best, Mildred. xxx

Forgive me for not being on the live last night, I wasn't too well. Sending support 🙏

Thanks Stephen again enjoyed your knowledge,and had a good laugh with our chat mates on here ,keeps us going these lives, take care see you soon night 😊x

Great live Stephen, thanks for that, again learnt a lot and things coming back to me i knew off the cuff years ago, really getting me interested again, had a good laugh with everyone, brilliant, cheers.

Hi Stephen. My back garden faces due south and apart from the A55 dual carriageway ( Which is hidden by a hedge at the bottom of the garden) it's all open fields so I get a really good view of Orion. Scottish Power switched off the electric supply to my street the other night to do some work and even though the rest of the village remained lit up, it was amazing how much darker the sky looked. Orion was over in the south east at the time. I Really like the picture you took of Orion at Glencoe, it doesn't look too warm though.

I'm not a astronomer but fascinated by the night sky & I regularly walk home from work @ around 3'00 am & the past week the skies have been a heaven ( pardon the pun 😅 ) for stargazing..for the untrained eye I ain't got a clue what I'm looking at apart from dipper...

I'm watching this in the middle of the night Stevie, all this talk of Milky Way & Galaxy is making me hungry. I can't stop thinking about chocolate 😂😂 xx

Gorgeous picture of the Orion nebula. Well done!

Hi Stephen,great vlog as always,love your knowledge of our sky thank you 💕

Fantastic photograph xx

Hi Stephen, a great video giving us great pictures and lots of information about Orion. It was very interesting. Thank you for showing us. Hope your foot is better, see you next time.xxxx

Evening Stephen, the plieades got me into astronomy as a little kid, fascinated me seeing a group of stars. Also Orion, mates used to take the Mick but soon stopped when they saw how into it I was. When we were out they couldn't believe I knew each bright star, I used to say learn the constellations first then you'll know the main stars. Thanks for that Stephen, cheers.

Interesting video about the Orion. Thank you Stephen.

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Astrogeezer here Stephen. Took delivery of the See Star S50. So easy to set up and use. I’m in Haskayne near Southport and Bortle 5. I Imaged Horsehead B33, M27 Vulpecula, M45. Even with all the equipment accumulated over 60-70 years, I have never, ever, been able to take such mind-blowing images. All in one evening’s Astrophotography too. Minimal editing using iPad and iPhone editing software. You’ve got to try the system out. About 500 quid and available from all the usual outlets.

Hi Stephen I bought this tracker a couple of months ago but typically not had many opportunities. The last year seems to have been one of the cloudiest that I can remember. Hopefully we'll get some more opportunities over the next few months

Awww my dear absent minded professor ❤️ I couldn't believe it when you forgot to turn the tracker on, but when you did wow, the images were fantastic. The Moon rising was gorgeous 😘 xx

Too cloudy to see owt in Castleford tonight.. nice pics 👍

Brilliant stephen very helpful, as soon as we get a clear sky im out and trying mine out

Love your excitement when it slowly comes into view on your phone 😂 I'm getting a telescope this year for Christmas I can't wait to get into this glorious hobbie, I've had a fascination with the night sky since I was a kid, beauty hidden in plain sight ✨

Stephen, your knees would have thanked you if you had planted the tripod on the picnic table instead of the ground! 🤣 Great id though!

Hi Stephen, that was a nice image of the Pleiades for just a single 30" exposure. Hopefully we'll get some clear nights soon so you can spend longer outside with the tracker.

Sorry, but I had to laugh out loud when you forgot to turn the tracker on. Lovely images and entertaining video, Stephen.

Nice vid Stephen. I started my astro work with an earlier version of the Move Shoot Move tracker in fact recommended by Alyn in a conversation with him. Mine is the laser version which I was not a fan off in any way and being as I live close to a large airport there was no way I could use it from home, however I used it when I travelled out with no problem. I have a story that will have you crying with laughter after such an excursion on Mt Olympus a few years back. One massive issue is also with the polar alignment, I bought a fabulous add on that is mentioned in another comment of a 90 degree adapter that screws onto the optical bit saving your neck, back and knees while aligning, it is not cheap but worth its weight in gold and cuts down on alignment times, plus it can be used on other polar scopes making it nice and versatile. It also has a 2x magnification option (switchable) to help nail the accuracy even more. First light Optics sell one from their website for anyone that may be interested. 🙂

Steve, you could have easily edited around your goof of forgetting to turn on the tracker but you left it in… you’re a fun and honest fellow!

I was stargazing at Lealholm on the Yorkshire Moors (between Middlesbrough and Whitby)on Thursday but it was so cold,-2,I couldn't hold my binoculars steady so I mainly did naked eye astronomy.

Hi Stephen,great to see this, the photo was amazing, thank you 😍 x