Qualia

That is a great help, Scooot. Thank you. It really is a bright galaxy and quite playful in its way. Since last observing, we've had nothing but rain and cloud. When it clears, I will head out and see if I can properly discern what is going on. Quite frustrating really. Thank you again.

At the moment the weather is quite good here so hopefully it is the same for you and it will hold off for tonight.

No. It's tipping down and cloudy and has been like this all week. I think it will begin to clear up around Sunday :-(

I guess looking on the bright side, lucky it wasn't you falling 35m. Except for my first day dropping my RDF on concrete I've not dropped anything since .... so far so good :-)

The "extreme astronomer", bit of a nuisance about the finder, but at least your ok

Thanks for the kind words. I've set up a little thread on the entire business in the Astro Lounge.

I am usually asleep within seconds of my head hitting the pillow. I fave up coffee once and fell asleep at my desk - mid sentence (twice lol )

fave = gave

Good stuff, occasionally going sleep deprived to that extent has to be done. Just once in a while is fine, yet personally it would take me days (and nights) to recover from that episode.

I think an hour from now.

Cheers Qualia, I will enjoy.

Shows over here now.

Lovely! Did you get a chance to do any sketching?

It's tradition and has been passed down though the ages.

I suggest we break this silly cycle :D

:D I think it will be easier to find the answer for light speed travel..

Anyway, the sights last night were phenomenal. The only shame being my boots failed to keep my feet warm after a couple of hours and that with the finder all frozen up and out of action I couldn't easily star-hop.

Sounds a good time you had Qualia. I'm still waiting on a good clear night here to give my new telescope a try. Funny because we had a few good clear nights before I got the telescope lol.

sounds like you had a great night, i cant remember last time i had a good session

Thank you all for your kind words. It really is nice to be back and to see such warm and tender folk. Thank you :-)

Welcome back Mr Gough

A warm welcome back, Rob! :)

LOL - welcome back, Qualia

LOL - welcome back, Qualia

Thanks, mark. Good to be back and hopefully this week will be able to get some viewing down although I won't be able to post.

Pity I was at work...

You can always have the chills and a tasty red wine stew for supper, Naemeth :-)

Indeed, might go eat in a bit - not sure what though!

SNOWING!! Oh boy. Okay, I'm going to rub it in a little more :-) :-) Just been out setting up under deep dark blue skies, in a...wait for it...T--shirt :-) Already seen Venus, Mercury, & Mars set within a gorgeous orange sunset. Will wait until the skies are properly dark before I dip and duck and soar between the stars :-) Snowing you say, SNOWING!! Oh, boy :-)

lol! Qualia! I'm bundling up for an adventure tonight in -39c with the windchil... not sure whether to go hunting or relax and see my favorite sights. Any advice from your lawnchair?lol! :)

-39ºC. You serious, Gerry!! That's nutty weather :-) I just don't know what to say. I think I'd be a bear and curl up until summer :-)

Quite opposite what we have here, only 2 half clear nights in a month

And they always seem to be near the full moon...

That's very true, Andy! The 1st and 2nd were patchy as JB80 noted, the 3rd was cloud covered and then bang! Big Moon for the rest of the week even though the skies were clear. What makes matters worse is that I can't start viewing till after midnight, so no quick sessions before the moon rises. Hopefully, this and next week will remain clear.

Welcome back :D

Welcome back!

good to have you back!!!

Thank you for the kind sentiments and thoughts. Peace and love to you all, gentle men.

At least it happened around the Full Moon!

My sentiments exactly :-)

Sure thing. Nothing makes more exhausted than a long session...I think there's a lot of mental and visual effort involved.

Sounds brilliant, Rob! Look forward to reading your detailed report in due course! Get some sleep then tell us all about it. Great to hear other people are getting some quality scope time, even if I'm not. Keeps my enthusiasm fired :)

Thank you all for your kind comments. It's been a really sun shining day today, so I've been out all day. I would love to head out again to the dark site, but I've got work tomorrow and my boss is in hospital :-( I will try to write up a report and stuff this evening. Thank you again :-)

Hope you guys get some decent weather this weekend. Here it's just getting to cold, so I'll probably do roof top gazing. I just don't have the clothes for sub-zero temperatures in the desert.

Her in the UK we think of spain for being hot, but i bet the dessert is a cold place on a winters night

Ay, it's true, folk do think it's hot all year here. I think Spain is the second most mountainous country in Europe, so temps can be very, very low.

I dunno - Rob can always use it as a Snorkel if the rain keeps on pouring :-)

You should live in Wales, it's like that.....every 72 hours:-)

Thanks for the funny replies. It's all gone a bit mad :-) Rain's stopped and now winds blowing around at 72km/h!

You can't be serious, Oz...

Great replies and thank you :-). Jules your own was positively evil :-)

absolutely no harm intended rob, and i bet she has a voice like an angel

Have a great evening...!

ENjoy what sounds a lovely evening! Full moon, Valentines Day, warm temperatures...hope you have some nice wine to go with that all :)

It is very windy here, so loud I have had to turn the TV up

The suspense...tell us! Bu tbe cautious when opening up in case one of the boxes has yet more clouds in it!

now do you want to swap your boxes for box no22? or stick with what you have?

Swap or no swap?

now do you want to swap your boxes for box no22? or stick with what you have?

Swap or no swap?

nice one rob, had a good night on saturn thursday using my 5mm pentax lovely strong views, but there was a slight double , found out i was looking through the mesh on the kids trampoline lol

Thank you for your kind comments :-) Luke, I hope you'll be able to salvage something from the images. Faulsky, two Saturns can't be a bad thing :-) Gerry, for once I think I was able to get a hint of the seeing you get in Canada :-) Shaun, thank you :-)

Thanks, Rob, images should be fine, I took some new ones to replace the blurry ones! It meant I had to play dodge the clouds for a bit, but lucky escape :) No time for such schoolboy errors during the week!

Hang in there Qualia,the sky will change,eventhough its frustrating now...

Have you moved to the uk ? :-)

Thanks for the comments, guys. Woke up early this morning and it's still raining. Oh well, I guess it's natures way of telling us to do something else in the meantime :-)

Love reading your posts Rob - enjoy the hols. 'See' you in 2014

Hope you have a good one.

I surely enjoy mine, it feels just a little too few sessions though

It was alright. Light but alright :-)

Light but not slight eh? ;)

Good to hear that SH got on primetime, wonder if BBC4 will ever screen it?

Really? Missed it.

It looks posh and it looks like is going to make life easier sketching and carrying gear.

Lovely! Really look forward to seeing you next sketches then :)

Very good mounts i have one, superb for visual, just take a little time getting the tube balanced

I've had one night out in the desert/scrub lands since it arrived :-( I've got a first light report due and hopefully will have it written up tonight or tomorrow.

I doubt it will be cloudy in Spain until September! It's clear here but it is also very foggy.

only 17?think yourself lucky