hi everyone. nothing special just a few things from tonight with my ace wife
scope was set up and cooling by 5, then colimated later on. aligned the nexus on arcturus and polaris using skysafari6 pro(loads better than 5)
set out on all the usual targets but seeing/contrast was poor. then after midnight wow, the sky came alive
m51 has lovely joining spiral arms lots of definition put the 8e in and the sky took it no problem m101 not quite as good but spiral arms everywere
m81/82 not the best but taking 300x no problem
makarains chain was brilliant heather had 6 galaxys in the fov using the apm 20 well cool. whale galaxy ,fireworks showing good detail as was m22 havnt seen that for a while. then on to the old favourites m13 , m57 lovely colours m27 😛
then the veil and cresent absolutely amazing, cresent was almost the best i have seen it. god its great to be out, wish i would of gone to my dark site now
cheers everyone