Garry Stubbs
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:39:50
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Those are amazing! If I HAD a garden shed, I'd put my potters wheel and kiln in there. Then I might actually be able to fit my car(s) in the garage!
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Garry Stubbs
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:43:10
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Thats intereresting Jules, because it is said that British gentlemen like to "potter" in their sheds too! Although what "pottering" is only becomes evident after the old boy has passed away and the family have to break the padlock and clear it out. Typically involves a hitherto undisclosed appreciation of nature in printed form and a clandestine whiskey habit
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:48:50
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Garry, did you happen to see the last episode of The Sky At Night - it featued a few amateurs in Patrick Moore's garden taking fairly long exposure shots (needed to get the sort of resolution those pics show) through quite modest telescope/camera/laptop rigs.
The results were stunning - very similar to those in that article.
And at the end of the night, they all had a go on Patrick's fifteen incher.
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:49:33
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there is another bloke in essex that does the same, he was on tv regarding light polution , which is the bigger problem.. but his telescope.. the whole "shed" rotated.hehe
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:54:34
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I once borrowed THIS from the local library  I'm with the home-brew guy - now that's making proper use of a shed 
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Garry Stubbs
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 19:56:57
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No I didn't Steve. drats ! When I was 9 I wrote a letter to him at the BBC and he sent me a personal reply which I treasured, until my ex-wife turfed it out along with a load of my other gear during the "divorce years"
My dad paid a driver to drop off a discarded crate used to ship switchgear around the world, and promptly used the contents of his shed to build me my own observatory in the garden when I was 10, what a guy ! I still have the star maps and moon phase observations I made at that time. I also became the youngest ever member of the BAA (British Astronomical Association) - the society for amateur astronomers. So I guess my love of the shed started from then
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:00:35
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See.... we're not the only ones with expensive hobbies linked to our computers.
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:04:05
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SteveStrummerUK
I once borrowed THIS from the local library
I'm with the home-brew guy - now that's making proper use of a shed
What a book Steve ! the product description says it all ---- "It has been said that a shed is to a man what a handbag is to a woman - both contain all the essentials for surviving in the modern world and in the same way that no decent man would ever consider looking in a woman's handbag uninvited, so no reasonable woman would dream of setting foot in a man's shed. This book is a study of over 40 men and their sheds around the UK, a quirky look at the personalities and the passions hidden within the shed, whether it is used for eccentric inventions, as a chapel, a housing for a milk bottle collection, an allotment shed, a home for exotic reptiles or a place to make music. The fascinating story of each bloke and his shed is accompanied by photographs of the inner sanctum and of the customized exteriors." Theres a guy in our village, known as "Carl the bar" who has a pub in his shed, a bar, tables, darts board the bloomin lot. All the women think he's a nutter without exception, all the blokes think he's the pinnicle of manhood
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:06:21
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A buddy of mine converted his shed into...of all things...a recording studio.
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:11:18
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Guitarhacker
See.... we're not the only ones with expensive hobbies linked to our computers.
Expensive maybe Herb, but if you think about it, even just a few years ago, the images these guys are getting and the results we now get from our DAWs would have been a little more than a pipe dream for amateurs in both fields!
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:27:05
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My dad paid a driver to drop off a discarded crate used to ship switchgear around the world, and promptly used the contents of his shed to build me my own observatory in the garden when I was 10, what a guy ! I still have the star maps and moon phase observations I made at that time. I also became the youngest ever member of the BAA (British Astronomical Association) - the society for amateur astronomers. So I guess my love of the shed started from then
Now that is cool Garry  I never had the observatory but I did use the garden shed for writing up my observations and such like, I even had a red light bulb fitted in there to make it easier to readjust to the dark when I went back out! I've sadly long since lost all my notes and stuff but I still have my small telescope and my copy of Norton's Star Atlas - my kids are still amazed when I point up to the night sky and say things like "That's Saturn" and "That faint little patch of light is over two million light years away" - he he, you get the picture. I vividly remember at school we did a week or two as part of the Physics O'Level syllabus studying Astronomy (Kepler's Laws, trajectories of spacecraft etc) and the teacher was trying to explain retrograde motion of planet; I must have looked a right swot when I showed him one of my observation books in which I'd plotted the path of Mars over the course of a few months showing exactly that.
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 20:39:26
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/20 22:05:54
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I thought a shed was for..
umm....
errm.....
practicing guitar?
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/21 05:43:09
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And at the end of the night, they all had a go on Patrick's fifteen incher. Why did that make me go 'Fnarr fnarr'? I had a shed for a couple of years when we had an allotment. The missus would do all the proper crop tending, my son was busy digging his hole to Australia, while I would fix the shelves, put in nails to hold the tools up in exactly the right place, and test whether the flame ****ant they'd added to sodium chlorate based weedkiller since I was a kid really did mean making explosives with sugar were no longer possible!
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/21 07:17:00
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This guy has built an observatory into his garage in Tuscon. Some very good images, but definitely not low budget! http://www.hiddenloft.com/
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/21 08:13:14
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I hate to be a pill... but I learned a bit about Telescopes last year when I purchased my 12" Newtonian reflector...
I think it is grossly unfair to compare any terrestrial made images to those made by Hubble.
The star photos made from earth are essentially digital paintings... they are heavily retouched just like the models in the fancy fashion mags.
While the Hubble photos get a similar treatment, the data sets are much more detailed and as such there are a lot less artistic licenses taken.
It's just not fair to compare the two work products.
I thought I was going to get into astro photography because I already make a lot of photographs and digital images but began to think that spending my time actually looking at stars and nebula was more interesting. The result of the photo hobby is a stack of blurry plates that you have to composite into something you tell people is a "photo". After I considered it... it just seemed more natural to leave the photography to Hubble etc.
Having said that... those are some really beautiful photos.
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Garry Stubbs
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/21 16:44:38
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I still have my love of all things astronomical.
I now have a confession to make, , I live on the edge of a village and light pollution is minimal compared to living in a town and ideal for skywatching. About 5 or 6 years ago I wandered across to the cricket pitch opposite my house late on a balmy clear mid August night with my deckchair, a torch and a flask of coffee and whiskey, to watch the Perseid meteor showers. It was about 1am and I heard a noise and saw a woman walking her dog across a path at the edge of the pitch which is effectively a shortcut from one side of the village to the other. I was on the pitch and knew I might frighten her, so in order to alleviate the situation, when she drew up near, I stood up from my deck chair and proclaimed "Hi !, dont worry, Patrick Moore sent me here to watch the Perseids" anyway, she screamed and bolted off with her dog as fast as her legs could carry her. I did think about chasing her to explain but knew that might have made matters worse. The fact that I had accidently frightened a woman so much disturbed me too so I headed home in the opposite direction. About 15 minutes later from my kitchen window I saw 2 police cars pull up, the officers got out with torches and proceeded to scour the sports ground and surrounding area.
How do you explain that one?
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Re:The British man and his shed
2010/01/21 17:49:17
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Edited for poor taste. 
post edited by jamesg1213 - 2010/01/21 17:50:43
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