Marki

you sold that sleek Alfa? what you got now?

Still an Alfa - Giulietta this time - gone back to petrol after my excursion into diesel ownership - and just as diesel is cheaper than petrol for the first time in years - doh!

The Giulietta is still a rather nice car, and it sounds like the gov are thinking about turning against diesel cars

2 wheels good, four wheels bad :-)

I have a vision of you turning up at a star party on a bike with an f13 rocket launcher on your shoulder

Mmm - could work, eyepieces in the paniers, tube strapped across my back...red lights at the rear...but how to carry the mount?

i got 35 mins better than nil..

Same here. As it went dark, I got it all aligned and then clouded over within 30 mins. Went inside. Looked out when I went to bed and it was totally clear, so nipped out with my bins for 20mins :), so not a totally wasted night.

all i got was a few widefeild shots just to try the ed and then it was just clouded out by1210am

its lovely, for ducks

Rain is just daft. After all this time, it still hasn't grasped the idea that sometimes its useful to fall upwards.

Sorry about that, must have come with my new eyepieces.

Not a cloud in the sky or a single star yet so I'm expecting the same until I see some.:)

I don't believe it Marki ya cursed it, I got 10 mins lol

i have clear skies, but not happy with 150p ds and dslr, wont focus!

Probably not as good as I thought - think I was just happy to be out :)

Just snapped in and out from hero to zero.

Yup - same here - but when it was shapr it was glorious - I was using my 4" f13 last night and it was way better (sharper/clearer - betterdetail) than my 125mm f8.9 was the night before

good luck marki, im hoping for lunar imaging over weekend

Big bright Moon illuminating the clouds here, grrrrr!

Sky clear enough, but the moon is really bright :) Just have to look at that instead :). Its as much trying out the 6" on the azeq6 - seems reasonably stable so far.

ditto

Clouds here :-( Europe has been cursed :-)

Awful, needs a blower!

generally a waste of time

weather forecast = 'scope tease!!

largely pointless exercise carried out by people with a largely pointless job.....will that do ...:)

Nope :(. All these telescope sales that Stagazing Live will generate are gonna kill the weather for months ;)

Been clear here all day and I was just thinking I'll get the scope out and that's all it was.

Same here mate...

Same for me,tomorrow i will be in the new forrest and no clear skies forecast

snap, i can stay up late but cloudy here

Saturday night is the only day I can stay up really really late. So therefore it's the one day of the week that the clouds take over!

:)

The excitement is building, i have been given a price from italy, keep us up to date

Has it hit Londonium yet, or has the tracking gone into limbo? I've had that happen a few times and it's most frustrating :(

Been like that here a lot recently :-( Next week looks much the same. Hope you had a fruitful night, Mark.

Thanks Rob. Actually, the murk lifted and its lovely and relatively clear now. Gorgeous star fields through Cygnus. Shame I have an early start in about 6 hours ... . But worth it!

As long as you have hot weather it'll be like that. very bad visibility.

my tal 80rs will be out shortly if the moon clears the trees

Same problem here...moon just below the neighbours trees....and the sky looks good tonight :) Clear skies Jules!

we've got the set out tonight. The Tal 100rs is out already, with a big fat moon. Clear skies to you two.

Thinking about it - its the same colour as the sky from my back garden :(

....and mine

and mine !! but loving the Halloween look

I spent friday night at saddleworth and the thunder early saturday morning was spectacular

Not had a single rumble of thunder, no lightning and pretty much no rain.

Would love all three if you fancy sending some over!

Wow, I never get bored of god moving the furniture! Next to a clear dark sky, give me a grand thunder storm any day rather than orange-grey gloop :)

Very wet Marki

Ark building weather.

Tell me about it! No super moon for me tonight...not even a smidge of a star. Gutted. :(

oh yes! shame i got cloud all weekend :(

hope it comes of marki, i just got back from a sort of dark sirte with the 150 mak, bagged M45 M31, Alcor/Mizar, the double double plus a handful of open clusters and split polaris

Nice one Jules. I spent a couple of hours with the TAL125r, and bagged a few doubles and a smattering of Messiers. Actually spent more time with my bins, looking at the double cluster, M45 and so on. Good night :)

its looking okay, hoping to check collimation on the vmc

Fingers crossed, eh Jules?! Waether and collimation, that is!

collimation is good, and focuser seems a little improved, have to decide if im keeping it now

good-luck

fingers crossed, Mark.

how did it go fella

welcome back

Ta mate :). Weather not lookin gtoo bad for a quick trip to my garden... hope to get the 125r out for a test!

welcome back, Mark. Look forward to hearing your views about the 125r.

Al this cloud is my fault for getting heq5 syntrek

Blanket of thick fog here for the last 2 days, before that 9 days of blanket cloud. Haven't been out in ages in almost a fortnight!.

Marki, you should have nailed a few hours sleep and got up about 5am for some lunar/ planetary, with orion added in the plot for a bonus

Last night my wife and I were out at dance practice - currently trying to learn Ballroom & Latin! Came home at a little after 22:00 after 2 1/2 hours of practice to see the moon rising low over the houses and a perfectly clear sky, with what looked like excellent seeing. Equally too tired to set up the scope to do some observing!

Clouds are already rolling in this afternoon, ready for the rain showers tonight!

cloudy here

It is clearish here but we've been on the pop...:D

Good luck with the move, Mark.

Good luck, i have all this to look forward to next year, but a garden is a great asset for astro work