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I'm going on my Duke of Edinburgh in a couple of weeks and would like to buy a tent. I would also like one for general use. I've looked at some in the <£40 price range. I stumbled upon the Ryde 2 Man Dome Tent from Eurohike. Firstly, is this a decent tent? And also, it is 3kg. Will this be a major inconvenience when walking up to 30 kilometres? Any suggestions to other tents?
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That's not a good buy. You can find a proper Vango Banshee for £50 if you look around. Tha's the recommended tent and it's very good. Millets still charge more than £100 for it.
The Coleman Cobra is similar and you might find one for £40.
My Coleman Raid was £40 in a closing down sale and it weighs only 980 grams. It's kept the wind and rain out on the Highlands and been to over a dozen countries and never ever let me down. It's onl 3 feet high so you can't sit up. It opens all along one side and it's great for mountain running 2-day events where you sleep on the hills overnight. Most people take bivvy bags but the Raid is the same weight and higher so you get a proper tent, although it's a low one and only just big enough for two very close friends.
http://www.shoppersshop.co.uk/water-carrier/463079.html . . .
http://www.singersoutdoors.co.uk/pages/ximages2/pimbanner.JPG
2Kg or a little over is a better weight to aim for as a top limit for most lightweight camping tents for walking but most of the lighter good quality ones are expensive so 2.5Kg becomes a more practical limit for most people.
For cycle camping 3Kg is OK or even 4Kg. The bike, not the rider, carries the weight.
Dome tents are difficult to cover with an extra flysheet so look at ridge or tunnel tents which are easy to cover with a plastic sheet for total waterproofing and keeping grit off in high winds which causes wear on the material..
Millets has a good Vango tunnel tent in the sales at the moment, nice shape and good quality. Have a look round your local one because each store sometimes has different things in the sales.
My Vango mountain tent has been excellent, as my three Colemans have, in atrocious weather.
The best buy though is the Eurohike Backpacker 2 at only £25 now but it started at £65.
http://www.millets.co.uk/camping/tents/1-2-person-tents/product/096472/BACKPACKER.html?attribute=4785507 . . ..
Buy some good tent pegs for it because supplied pegs with most tents are never much good and get a cheap plastic groundsheet or a sheet of polythene to put over it if the weather looks like storm time coming up.
Lots of people do it that way so you won't look like raw recruits or anything. A big enough plastic sheet gives you dry space both sides of the tent too.
You also need a plastic sheet to put under it. You can buy them, called footprints in tent talk, but an ordinary plastic sheet is all you need.
Pitch the tent over it and tuck the sides in all round and then water off the tent falls outside it instead of soaking under the tent and you keep the tent floor dry then.
The tent and cover and footprint will still come to nearly 3Kg but with that one you were thinking of it'll come to nearly 3 1/2 Kg.
For £25 that's a good buy and will last for years if you look after it.
REI is in the USA and no good for British buyers.
Food as well...eat properly on DofE, not pot noodle stuff. Scroll down to "Food". It's for Slver but Bronze needs the same and Gold needs a bit more because you're out for longer.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjPf7yBb_5rZUlVqxJIrRCEhBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20110626085420AA7OuLF . . .
Have a good time.
That's not a good buy. You can find a proper Vango Banshee for £50 if you look around. Tha's the recommended tent and it's very good. Millets still charge more than £100 for it.
The Coleman Cobra is similar and you might find one for £40.
My Coleman Raid was £40 in a closing down sale and it weighs only 980 grams. It's kept the wind and rain out on the Highlands and been to over a dozen countries and never ever let me down. It's onl 3 feet high so you can't sit up. It opens all along one side and it's great for mountain running 2-day events where you sleep on the hills overnight. Most people take bivvy bags but the Raid is the same weight and higher so you get a proper tent, although it's a low one and only just big enough for two very close friends.
http://www.shoppersshop.co.uk/water-carrier/463079.html . . .
http://www.singersoutdoors.co.uk/pages/ximages2/pimbanner.JPG
2Kg or a little over is a better weight to aim for as a top limit for most lightweight camping tents for walking but most of the lighter good quality ones are expensive so 2.5Kg becomes a more practical limit for most people.
For cycle camping 3Kg is OK or even 4Kg. The bike, not the rider, carries the weight.
Dome tents are difficult to cover with an extra flysheet so look at ridge or tunnel tents which are easy to cover with a plastic sheet for total waterproofing and keeping grit off in high winds which causes wear on the material..
Millets has a good Vango tunnel tent in the sales at the moment, nice shape and good quality. Have a look round your local one because each store sometimes has different things in the sales.
My Vango mountain tent has been excellent, as my three Colemans have, in atrocious weather.
The best buy though is the Eurohike Backpacker 2 at only £25 now but it started at £65.
http://www.millets.co.uk/camping/tents/1-2-person-tents/product/096472/BACKPACKER.html?attribute=4785507 . . ..
Buy some good tent pegs for it because supplied pegs with most tents are never much good and get a cheap plastic groundsheet or a sheet of polythene to put over it if the weather looks like storm time coming up.
Lots of people do it that way so you won't look like raw recruits or anything. A big enough plastic sheet gives you dry space both sides of the tent too.
You also need a plastic sheet to put under it. You can buy them, called footprints in tent talk, but an ordinary plastic sheet is all you need.
Pitch the tent over it and tuck the sides in all round and then water off the tent falls outside it instead of soaking under the tent and you keep the tent floor dry then.
The tent and cover and footprint will still come to nearly 3Kg but with that one you were thinking of it'll come to nearly 3 1/2 Kg.
For £25 that's a good buy and will last for years if you look after it.
REI is in the USA and no good for British buyers.
Food as well...eat properly on DofE, not pot noodle stuff. Scroll down to "Food". It's for Slver but Bronze needs the same and Gold needs a bit more because you're out for longer.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjPf7yBb_5rZUlVqxJIrRCEhBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20110626085420AA7OuLF . . .
Have a good time.
New Telescope for new Astronomer?
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I live in the Uk, what telescope could I buy to look at planets or other objects with are contained in our vast universe. Iam a new follower to astronomy and would like jump on the band wagon and purchase a telescope, bearing in mind i live in the Uk can you please give me 'reliable' website or point out which telescope is best for me to purchase i do not want a really complex one but i do not want a really simple one that will show me nothing... All help will be greatly appreciated
Answer
Hi.
If you look at Warehouse Express you'll find what there is for the money. It's reliable, one of the cheapest outlets in UK, and very good with deliveries. No long waiting.
Just click on the boxes and you'll find what the different types are. Saves dozens of lines of explanation.
I use them...have done for years. No problems at all.
http://www.warehouseexpress.com/category/categorynav.aspx?cat02=2006 . . .
You can expect to pay £120+ for a tube and optics good enough to actually be worth getting, plus another £100+ for a mount.
Top range is over a year's pay. At that level the actual figure isn't important.
At £200-£600 is the main line stuff that most people land up with. Nice to get an £8000 big Meade or Astro-Physics refractor with computer controlled bells and whistles but there's a house to run first.
I make telescopes. Thousands do. Mirrors and all. Cheaper.
The best value for money are Dobsonians but the mounting is simple and doesn't allow large magnifications for planets. Too awkward with the fast image movement at high powers.They are best for wide field low power views.
An equatorial mount isn't hard to use. Some people get flustered at the appearance of them compared to a simple Dobsonian but an equatorial is very versatile and actually easier to use over a wider range of magnifications.
You'll see Eq1, Eq2 etc mounts on the scopes advertised. Those two are small and for small scopes. They are also pretty useless.
An Eq3 is the smallest that's any good really, and an Eq5 is OK. The Celestron standard equatorial for their eight-inch Schmitt-Cassegrains used to be an Eq4 with their own name on it. They call it a CG-5.
http://www.astronomyboy.com/cg5/ . . . . .
http://www.celestron.com/c3/product.php?ProdID=91 . . . .
They are all made by Synta in China, as most refracting and a lot of Schmitt-Cassegrains and Maksutov telescopes are.
Meade makes their own in the better ranges, in USA.
Top stuff, and they took on Celestron who started the big revolution in quality telescopes for the mass market and Meade never looked back. Celestron were struggling a few years ago , got taken over by a cheapie firm...Tasco.(Oh the shame of it) , had a management buyout, all sorts of trouble. Back to better times now.
A great British company making superb telescopes in the Midlands at lovely old Crewe of railway junction fame (biggest rail junction in UK) is Orion Optics.
It isn't the same firm as Orion in USA that you'll see advertising in Sky and Telescope.
Orion Optics scopes are pricey, but ..................Wooooow!!!
http://www.orionoptics.co.uk/ . . .
Down south in London is the Widescreen Centre. Doesn't sound like a likely candidate but it's one of the most respected telescope suppliers in UK and you can call in for a chat, no obligation, nice time,very friendly.
They started in the proffessional photography scene, supplying products for sale or hire for studios and big exhibitions.
Top rated company, very very good.
They're in a side road (big side road) a few minutes walk from the Madam Tussaud's waxworks in Baker Street. If you're down the smoke anytime it's well worth calling in for a chat and a look at the goodies. If you haven't heard the expression before 'the smoke' is a northern expression for London.
http://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/ . . . .
To see telescopes in use and get an idea of what would suit you best you need a star party or an astro club outdoor meet.
Galloway has just opened UK's first Dark Sky Park. Keep a look out for events and go along. Astronomers are a friendly bunch. Getting a look through people's scopes is what folks are there for. Don't be shy. Use the time. Get some friends, contacts, useful info and addresses, enjoy the night. Tent and sleeping bag, portable camping stove and food (used away from the telescope area) and a warm companion if desired (not usually supplied, most people take their own,haha) for the remains of the night and the inevitable lie in through most of the morning, makes a real good time of it.
All night if the clouds ruin things. Still a great place to be though.
Star parties are held all over the world. Not many in Inner Mongolia, but they're not unknown.
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/darkskygalloway . . . .
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/AllByUNID/3CFD750C977A5FDD8025766F00392085 . . .
Here's a guy in Scotland asking about astronomy
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100114053415AAYOtZi . . . . .
You could check the local library for a list of local clubs, or do a net search. Most libraries keep info on all the organisations in their area., from the Aberdeen fish smoking and bread lovers appreciation society to the Zulu battle dancing and running club.....or whatever.
Here are a couple of telescope Qs to get the flavour of things. There are hundreds more. Just search for telescope Qs in the 'Search for Questions' box.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091122083238AAxR6It . . . .
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100331141217AAsUvFJ . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100325105812AAz7nxR . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091030052042AAdIYFr . . . . . .
Have a great time.
Dark Skies!
Hi.
If you look at Warehouse Express you'll find what there is for the money. It's reliable, one of the cheapest outlets in UK, and very good with deliveries. No long waiting.
Just click on the boxes and you'll find what the different types are. Saves dozens of lines of explanation.
I use them...have done for years. No problems at all.
http://www.warehouseexpress.com/category/categorynav.aspx?cat02=2006 . . .
You can expect to pay £120+ for a tube and optics good enough to actually be worth getting, plus another £100+ for a mount.
Top range is over a year's pay. At that level the actual figure isn't important.
At £200-£600 is the main line stuff that most people land up with. Nice to get an £8000 big Meade or Astro-Physics refractor with computer controlled bells and whistles but there's a house to run first.
I make telescopes. Thousands do. Mirrors and all. Cheaper.
The best value for money are Dobsonians but the mounting is simple and doesn't allow large magnifications for planets. Too awkward with the fast image movement at high powers.They are best for wide field low power views.
An equatorial mount isn't hard to use. Some people get flustered at the appearance of them compared to a simple Dobsonian but an equatorial is very versatile and actually easier to use over a wider range of magnifications.
You'll see Eq1, Eq2 etc mounts on the scopes advertised. Those two are small and for small scopes. They are also pretty useless.
An Eq3 is the smallest that's any good really, and an Eq5 is OK. The Celestron standard equatorial for their eight-inch Schmitt-Cassegrains used to be an Eq4 with their own name on it. They call it a CG-5.
http://www.astronomyboy.com/cg5/ . . . . .
http://www.celestron.com/c3/product.php?ProdID=91 . . . .
They are all made by Synta in China, as most refracting and a lot of Schmitt-Cassegrains and Maksutov telescopes are.
Meade makes their own in the better ranges, in USA.
Top stuff, and they took on Celestron who started the big revolution in quality telescopes for the mass market and Meade never looked back. Celestron were struggling a few years ago , got taken over by a cheapie firm...Tasco.(Oh the shame of it) , had a management buyout, all sorts of trouble. Back to better times now.
A great British company making superb telescopes in the Midlands at lovely old Crewe of railway junction fame (biggest rail junction in UK) is Orion Optics.
It isn't the same firm as Orion in USA that you'll see advertising in Sky and Telescope.
Orion Optics scopes are pricey, but ..................Wooooow!!!
http://www.orionoptics.co.uk/ . . .
Down south in London is the Widescreen Centre. Doesn't sound like a likely candidate but it's one of the most respected telescope suppliers in UK and you can call in for a chat, no obligation, nice time,very friendly.
They started in the proffessional photography scene, supplying products for sale or hire for studios and big exhibitions.
Top rated company, very very good.
They're in a side road (big side road) a few minutes walk from the Madam Tussaud's waxworks in Baker Street. If you're down the smoke anytime it's well worth calling in for a chat and a look at the goodies. If you haven't heard the expression before 'the smoke' is a northern expression for London.
http://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/ . . . .
To see telescopes in use and get an idea of what would suit you best you need a star party or an astro club outdoor meet.
Galloway has just opened UK's first Dark Sky Park. Keep a look out for events and go along. Astronomers are a friendly bunch. Getting a look through people's scopes is what folks are there for. Don't be shy. Use the time. Get some friends, contacts, useful info and addresses, enjoy the night. Tent and sleeping bag, portable camping stove and food (used away from the telescope area) and a warm companion if desired (not usually supplied, most people take their own,haha) for the remains of the night and the inevitable lie in through most of the morning, makes a real good time of it.
All night if the clouds ruin things. Still a great place to be though.
Star parties are held all over the world. Not many in Inner Mongolia, but they're not unknown.
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/darkskygalloway . . . .
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/AllByUNID/3CFD750C977A5FDD8025766F00392085 . . .
Here's a guy in Scotland asking about astronomy
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100114053415AAYOtZi . . . . .
You could check the local library for a list of local clubs, or do a net search. Most libraries keep info on all the organisations in their area., from the Aberdeen fish smoking and bread lovers appreciation society to the Zulu battle dancing and running club.....or whatever.
Here are a couple of telescope Qs to get the flavour of things. There are hundreds more. Just search for telescope Qs in the 'Search for Questions' box.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091122083238AAxR6It . . . .
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100331141217AAsUvFJ . . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100325105812AAz7nxR . . . . .
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091030052042AAdIYFr . . . . . .
Have a great time.
Dark Skies!
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