Qualia

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.

Ay, the first week of this month wasn't much to write about but things seem to picking up again. For the first time I truly cracked Mars, not just tweaking detail but actually having them in your face. Nice night on a roof top. My girlfriend just phoned me and said I should start preparing for a dark site session tomorrow. That's a cool thumbs up :-)

Fantastic, Rob. I've never got much useful above c. x200 with Jupiter here, and Mars is still an orange blob of various sizes for me. Hoping tonight will be better though!

Awesome seeing Qualia!-and I respect your dedication

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 :-)

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

Sounds lovely, better than here !

Then why am i sitting indoors every night screaming at the sky to clear

Rpwan, just give your secondary a few jolts, remove the spider, collimate and start again, keeps you sane. Some have even resorted to putting wall paper on their dob mounts :D

It's the whole Universe !

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

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

Mood-swings!

some times we just have things on our minds that stop us from enjoying the things we like

Yep, same here. Minus 3, stunning seeing - shame about the Moon!

Chris

Not that cold here, but only short sessions between clouds.

Good to hear you both got a session in :-)

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!

Yep, we get the very same. So clear to the eye, then wobbly wobbly fuzz !

Seems like every "clear" night for the two weeks has been like that for me...hoping we'll get some crisper nights in winter proper.

I think the Jet stream is above us at the moment.

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?

nice one Qualia, i started to set up the little swift, and it went from clear sky to rain yet again

Had a wonderful view, belts and colours certainly have pepped up !

:-)

That's what the sky looked like from my old house :)

Wasn't supposed to be LP though!

Well I thought it was the glow of all the bonfires but then LP is not something that is on my mind much around here..:)

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!

I am green with envy..:D Nice one I bet it was grand..

Well done Q i got up at 0500 to see it but here in the uk wall to wall cloud and rain....a rather wet star party

Take care Qualia

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.

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 :-)

I have hear that some folk hang sand bags from thm or even fill the legs with sand.

I filled my legs with wet mortar !

Thanks for the tips. I might give those sand ones a try.

Ha...:) they do kinda take it outta ya huh! Had a couple of those last weekend well worth it though...:)

Lol @ bush wacked, ive not heard that term in a while

Nice one! Look forward to reading the write-up :)