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Bargain, I'll have two.

that looks like a nice field, how much do you want for it? would be shame for something to happen to it.

It depends.

Because if I'm going to see my colleague who lives in Maine, and has a large house and a several acre space around it, then he can run extension leads out to wherever we set up and I won't need to carry power for the telescope and full set up to be useful... power will be there.

But if I'm going to Arizona where a friend is and they are in a forest and we're on the roof of her cabin (where she has a Dobsonian set up), then her cabin has no power so yeah I'd need power... and the Sharge is the largest size I could fly with, or we could arrange for her to get a local power bank sorted.

But if I'm going to Wales where there's a dark sky area, then this is all not an issue as the power bank I have can just go into the car and I can drive there.

Depends on the scenario.

Yeah, this makes sense.

I'm also wondering about custom foam for the flight case that I already have. The pluck foam is a bit soft and is already showing signs of degrading due to things pressing against it, but if I pluck more out the scope and various things will be a lot more loose in the case and subject to more movement.

Now I've got everything, I could just have fun creating CAD models, and send those off to a company to cut some foam for. It's a bit over the top, but given this cost so much and custom cut foam will be a lot longer lasting, offer more safety for all of the bits of glass, it feels like it's not wildly excessive, and if I can also fit the cabling into the case it really simplifies the carry.

Not as portable as I wished though... it will be two small flight cases plus the mount case and tripod. Hmm... now I wonder whether I can get the mount into one of these flight cases too with a bit more planning so that I can get it down to two carry on flight cases plus tripod.

I also haven't yet done a lot of work on real power usage, I'd like to not lug a portable power station around, and I love that the Sharge 100 https://sharge.com/products/storm2 has a DC output, so if the storage of 25,600mAh is sufficient for 4-6h of photography then I can actually have a portable setup.

What do other people do with their various lens and accessories?

The Tak comes with about 10 standard parts, and then once you buy a reducer and an extender, and a couple more adaptors to make those work... and the additional eyepieces... you just have < 10 various sized cardboard boxes, and a few random parts in bubble wrap.

Feels a bit awkward to transport, would prefer a case / bag of some kind with the eye pieces on top but everything else in there too.

Tada...

Everything working, and it's a breeze.

The only problem I really have is that it's not outdoors, in a clear field, at night, under stars.

I have finally received all of the bits, as the mount arrived.

Next steps... Anytime it's dark enough and clear enough, get out and test it all.

But failing that, construct it all and figure out how best to pack it all. Measure all required cabling and order custom lengths, so that the cables can be laced together in a tidy and compact way.

I suspected iPhone because all browsers on an iPhone are just Safari with different skins, and Safari is by far the worst browser that is out there.

You can try another browser on the device, but I suspect it will be just the same outcome.

This site does nothing special, this sounds like a browser issue. Are you an iPhone user?

Golf club

Another use of a field!

Pentesters, it's a skill.

flock of goats

This would be fun.

I like goats.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut

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Friends who've done this (far from London) really enjoy it. They say it's quite bit of work. And you need to be long-term. Maybe just live with it for a year or two to see what you've got

Yeah, this is where I'm really at.

I will likely have my mortgage paid off in a few years, and another windfall shortly after that... and I'm increasingly ready to look beyond living in London.

I could consider a large-ish place out near Brecons, let it be used for pasture, and open it to multiple other uses, or I could consider this more flexible open-ended idea of multiple smaller places that are open to all as communal spaces and mixed use.

I've time enough to think and research all the possible things, and flexible enough to do things at different speeds (i.e. leave the mortgage alone for another decade or so and do something else in the near future).

but as it currently looks... lots of small things look like a nightmare, and everyone echoes the rules and restrictions. anything bigger is quite far from the original idea and far more a big thing to do... so I will do the rabbit hole diving over a period of time and research seriously, whilst still making jokes though, those don't have to be serious.

I wasn't really intending to start Cottaging there.

Finally someone would be able to measure the effect of pies on the aerodynamics of a human powered vehicle.

I don't think I need a wind tunnel, but I might get a 3d printer to make the little containers I need for lens and adaptors for my telescope.

Oh, it's even cooler... it's for his brother's birthday, and his brother is an F1 car designer and the 3 model cars this wind tunnel is being built to accommodate are all cars that he has had a hand in some part of the design of. It has a lot of deep personal meaning to the recipient of it, in addition to being very unique.

It's also super cool my colleague is doing this, considering his brother wrote off his McLaren. But as my colleague said, there's no point having these cars if you're not taking them to tracks and pushing them to the extreme, so the risk of bending them is part of the deal. That car is getting a full rebuild, the cost is eye-watering.

my colleague is making a wind tunnel.

it's just for model cars, but has required 3d printing everything, solving how to get laminar flow smoke trails, and everything... but look at the outcome so far, and it's not yet finished.

Well ideally it has slopes on all sides and the top exceeds a certain height, otherwise it's only part of a mountain or a hill. I'm inclined to buy a mountain, it would be hillarious.

My partner had never listen to Ogden's Nut Gone Flake before, so that's our breakfast music this morning

Maybe fields are just too much hassle. Maybe I should be more ambitious. Mountains, has anyone bought a mountain?

The first view after a post is not counted, but everything else is counted.

So not quite half will be yours, but if you viewed without posting them that increments the count.

t-v is totally right, but that's also not the world we live in. If you bought land and gifted it to the people, it would just be sold by the council or crown, too small to be useful as a revenue for them, but profitable for them to sell to help contribute to some other costs.

A modern commons could work, though I doubt I could be the one to achieve that, would need a bigger than what I'm thinking