Qualia

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

Welcome back ! We've a cold front meeting a warm one !

welcome back rob, i hope you got every thing done in the UK that needed doing, chin up mate

Good luck Rob for some Super Solar! I was very happy to catch a few little patches this morning, the forecast was dire.

Q, sounds like you had a superb time, im taking the new mrs nightfisher camping to north yorkshire in july, will also take tal100 he he

Where was that?

Pyrenees' Mountains, Spanish side.

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 :-)

Wow! 5am - I hope you have time for a little siesta later.

of course, just had an hour on the couch

Just had one myself, and I woke up 11am! Good for the complexion, I'm told :-)

Managed a look, its a spectacular sight. The sun is really flexing its plasma today.

Sounds great, Rob - horrible weather here this weekend so no solar for the third week in a row :-(

211,000km is a very precise measurement - what are you using to gauge that?

Sorry to hear about the weather :-( It's a right pain when it's not clear. Derek, I use a micro-guide from Baader. It's only a guesstimate but it helps frame a general idea :-)

Nice heads up, Rob, what a fine hedgerow :) I thought the main spot had some nice activity around it too, it looked like there was a little flaring going on when I was out, inbetween the customary weekend clouds :D

Nice! Although the haze is not helping the detail. Massive & wide hedgerow. Cheers Rob.

Thanks for the replies :-) Hope you all had a nice session :-)

Sounds great Rob, I haven't seen blue sky or stars for a week now.. jus constant wind or rain or both.

A lot of April was like that here; rain, clouds. Looks like summer is beginning now but the weather in 'Valencia' is some of the worse I've seen in Spain. A lot of heat in the daytime and come night, a lot of cloud. Hopefully this year will be better....

Been raining here, looks better for backyard tonight, next two wkends will be looking for a crack at some dark sky, after which perhaps becoming too light.

I guess next week will be hot and muggy here, Shaun but today, the clouds cleared. I have to do the weeks shopping but when I get back I'll post up a few sketches.

Sounds excellent Rob, I was in North Italy last week and the weather was lovely...not over warm but some lovely clear days.

A couple more weeks of this and the pool will be warm enough for a swim. :) Good to hear you are enjoying the nice weather Rob.

Nice one Rob :-) We have had two lovely clear nights here but I have been too tired to go outside. Roll on the weekend.

You lucky man the forecast here from now is cloud for a week. Hopefully they are wrong like the normal 50% of the time.

Got an unexpected break in the cloud for an hour got some Moon shots,just lining up on Jupiter, cloud came back, now inside having a beer. ;)

Thanks, Gerry, You're a gentlemen. I will try to post up a few report-sketches this morning before work :-)

The night sky was a beautiful sight here tonight also.. :) First I've I've taken it all in for a long time.

Glad to see you foundaplanet! How's everything going?

Thanks, David. I have to go to work right now, but I'll quicky post up a rough sketch in the solar section :-)

Ok, all done. Now I must dash :-)

The weekend is looking promising here, so fingers crossed it stays that way :-)

:-)

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..:)

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.

Delightful..:) It's not bad here either for a change and it may even last the entire weekend..:)

Yup mid020s here Rob - pretty nippy by comparison to your neck of the woods! I have two bottles of Pinot Grigio delle Venezie in the Fridge to cool me down later! Was looking forward to a good night at the scope, but looking a wee bit hazy out there now... .

Mid 20s that should say!

I'm sure some one will sort it soon, but in the meantime, if you hit refresh after posting, that does the trick!

admin are working behind the scenes to deal with this. Qualia, thanks for posting this

Thanks Nightfisher.

Thank you, Cotterless. The dark spot wasn't around the equator and the more I search I cannot find anyone else seeing the same thing. I will clean my OTA and look again tomorrow.

Finally worked out the mystery. It was Io's shadow crossing over. A very pretty and spectacular sighting.

wow so it was a moon then?

and i did not know you could still see jupiter gone past 10am!!!! REALLY?? :D did u get any pics

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 :-)

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.

Ordering some Baader solar filter sheets in a fortnight, with the other half promising to make me a filter for my refractor and DSLR's :) Never tried solar obs before

You are not kidding Rob, its a cracker for both Ha and white light.

Damn I have been busy DIY today, missed the whole show. Looks good for the week though so hopefully tomorrow :)

Grand :) Still draeming about them here

Nice Rob! FOrgotten what they look like myself, but the weather forecast is vaguely promising for tomorrow...after yet more snow, that is!

good to hear you got a good session in

Oh dear, that's tragic...:D

Evil Grin

Ha, I think I have only seen the sun about three times in the last six weeks....;)

Ditto fella,rubbish transparency and the moon was a pain.

Shame Qualia - would have thought the cold desert skies were just ideal...?

Yeah, it is wierd, but even the forecast page said seeing would be bad and I couldn't work out why this would be so. I think it may have had something to do with the winds. Anyway, tonight was a lot better, but soooo cold. Desert-arid lands really do get chilly. Anyway, a fun, if short evening was had around Lyra.

I preffer to think of it as 'image processing weather'.

Reading and posting on SGL all night weather fo rme :)

well the uk has had alot of good kind of weather this year then !