The evening was wonderfully still so I decided to take the oppurtunity to play with some more afocal photography.

Miss Moon was highly obliging and I was quite please with my results althougth my cam does get some awful vignetting due to its powerful zoom lens.

I then decided to just have a bit of a gaze and was glad of my moon filter. It truly can be dazzling cant it?

After some lunar obs and subsequant drooling over the sheer clarity of the view I decided to take another look at my old darling Saturn.

Titan was easily seen even at low magnifications and I spent some time admiring the tiny flecks of several other moons. I then decided to see just how much mag i could get out of my kit. It coped admirably at 130x and i decided to try my luck with the barlow bringing it up to 260x. I was amazed that it managed this with some loss of clarity by otherwise a great view. I pushed the envelope further with 325x on my 2mm lens. This really was pushing the kit beyond its parameters and, although you knew it was saturn and the rings and general shape remained it really was too dim and diffuse to enjoy. I didnt put the barlow on, that would just be silly.

Then work started to loom ahead so it was time to pack up.

I grabbed the cam pics and was p[leased with the results, a little research turned up MS Ice and i did a little stiching and lightroomed the results to reasonable success.

I rather get the feeling that "seeing" was good tonight and my qust for DSOs could have been partly fulfilled. Unfortunately the pennies dont earn themselves so it was off for the night shift.