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First clear night in ages

Drove home with the hope of a clear sunset to see PANSTARRS but a blizzard soon put paid to that..... However, a beautiful clear evening developed and I got set for an hour and a half from 9pm. I had struggled to star hop last time out but had read an excellent article by EntropyStar showing how to use Stellarium to its full capacity. Started with Orion and could actually make out a very faint nebulosity with averted vision which was fantastic to see. Next up was a hop to M31 which I had faile
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A mixed bag in Surrey - 5/3/13

With that excellent app, Scope Nights, showing that last night would be the only clear-ish night of the week another session beckoned, but it was patchy at best with light cloud rolling in for much of the time but in between the sky seemed pretty clear. Ronl had previously mentioned Hyades so this was my first target and what a target it is for bins. There was a crystal clear view of the Theta Tauri 1 & 2 pair at the centre with surrounding, similar magnitude stars and many more smaller one
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Jupiter's moons 4/3/13

Came back from sporting exertions in London last night to find clear skies and a suggestion, by ronl on my first light post, that 2 of Jupiter's moons should be visible with my bins. I had previously found Jupiter very hard to focus on so popped out (10.15) and really concentrated on microscopic focusing movements and was thrilled to see 2 small specks on either side - 1 at 10.30 and the other opposite at 4.30. Now just a case of finding out which they were... Actually, having checked Stellar
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First light in 3 sessions

My Praktica 10 x 50 bins arrived on Wednesday and, after seemingly weeks of cloud, I found a 20 minute window in the cloud from my back garden. I live in a relatively dense suburban area near the M25 so I have a fair amount of light pollution to contend with but I had not realised how bright a street light in an adjoining road is - it kept catching my eye and ruining my night vision. :angry: I started with Orion and was totally unprepared for what I saw. In naked-eye vision Beetlejuice and th
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