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All set up waiting for comet Jacques, clouds rolled in and an XXXL Moon arrived.

All set up waiting for comet Jacques, clouds rolled in and an XXXL Moon arrived.

I've just lost 5 of my relatives in airstrike. The dad, the mum, the dad's sister and her two little children...

Finally...house moving has been confimed!!

Why oh why is this country so cloudy....?!

Maths GCSE on Monday, which would be stressful enough, but on top of this I'm taking it a year early and I'm expected to get an A* :(

Waiting for the clouds to clear

I have decided to cull my kit down to just one scope, but which one

Got a headache from flipping neighbours' garden DIY activities - all day! Grrr

Ouch!!

Found M40, M97, M108, M109, M81 and M82 already, and streelights aren't even off yet! Roll on midnight.

playing out tonight! !!!

3 nights on the trot. Transparency, seeing 5/5. Another hot, cloudless day today; blue skies and a gorgeous burning Sun. Next few days will be Martian time, so hopefully will have something to report this week. Sorry for lack of activity but will make ammends. Hope everyone is well and you all enjoyed SGL9.

finally a a slight chance to test test out my new TV's

finally a a slight chance to test test out my new TV's

House offer accepted...fingers crossed I won't get gazumped for the third time... :)

Great!! Now I'm almost out of astro gear to fund house purchase, and got my first mortgage rejected. I'm over the moon...the dark side of the moon more like it :)

Its clear again but I just dont feel like it tonight.

Tried to find m51 tonight using my Celestine 5se, used the go-to but no luck. Everything else was found easy Jupiter, Polaris etc so I'm guessing there's too much light pollution to see it with a 5" scope??

I got out last night! even after a 16 hour day trip to london I still went out :D

Light pollution at new house is killing astro for me

Transparency this evening wasn't up to much but the seeing was phenomenal. 250x on Jupiter, Saturn and Mars and still not a shimmer or wobble. Just gone 5am and I've got work in a few hours! Oh well :-)

In these past 3/4 days at Les Granges I've already had 11 hours observing, most with a 20" dob - stunning skies. Need I say more? :D

Long session this evening. Packed up at 6pm and have just arrived home at 2.30am Absoluetly exhausted but buzzing from a nice dark site session.

Warm evening out, around 16ºC. Really quite peaceful sitting under the ghostly light of a passing Jupiter and Moon.