Last few days it has been very hot, so quite unusual for us folk on the windy East Coast. Even went in the sea and it was WARM!

Due to haze and visiting grandchildren didn't use either of my telescopes but on the plus side had some great wide-field views through my 11x80 binoculars . M13, M92 and M31 :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: . Managed to view a number of very bright slow moving meteors, quite beautiful! I also thought that with averted vision I could just pick out a grey dot where M57 should be, but this could be old eyes and wishful thinking! :shocked:

Worst shock horror! Visiting my friends on their boat I dropped my trusty and well used Lumix compact camera in 6 feet of murky salt water. :mad: Good news my long suffering partner bought me a new one. :kiss:

I am still testing my homemade meteor detecting radio telescope (The LVST). Have been building a website for it. If interested please visit at

http://missbissuk.wix.com/lvst