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How do you cloud watch at night? It's dark, well except for the light pollution that would illuminate the underside a bit.

only kidding lol i could not imagine a more boring hobby lol

Hehe. No clouds for all day in Liverpool. Now, I see plenty of them going to cover entire sky - how sweet :P

no more trying to align the mount with notebook in one hand, with eye up to the eyepiece trying to click the keys on the notepad loooool :D

Nice! Just remember, it is a telescope and not Halo!

haha :D lovin it :D

SCOPES out cooling now, MET keeps getting better and better every time i refresh, by the looks of it i should get atleast a couple hours from 10pm to 12am tonight :D ......... going to attempt to get as much data as i can on M101 :)

Mine is out too, although clouds coming in from east. Trying for a long visual session with Mars tonight, trying various magnifications and filters.

yeah not sure if ill be wasting my time getting guiding up and going and trying for some subs DSO subs...... one option could be to do a star test (very boring) or try some planetary imaging on mars with the QHY......just dont know, good luck with viewing tonight tho mate

The 80ed pro frac lmad :)

Tell me about it mitchelln but don't tell my mrs lol

80ED is a fantastic scope!! I used it for both visual and imaging...was happy with both.

ohhhh sounds good lmad, i have not heard one bad word about the 80ED

I see jupiter.

i see mars lol!!! :D

im going to try M82 if that dont work back to a globular cluster for me tonight :D

all went well...framed and focussed m81/m82, guiding ok... its now snapping away now and im back in doors having a nice cold beer, going to do about 2 hours hopefully on this DSO, well hopefully if it does not past by my house roof in that time.....its going to be close :( its all practice for when i get to my dark spot next weekend tho :)

how u getting on with guiding tonight

I take it the HEQ-5 has arrived then?

oh yes sir :D

It is now about 5 miles away from me lol, but the items have gone from 2 to 1..... I hope one package has not been lost on route...

not with flo mate, they are the best of the best

Yeah my two items from FLO are the heq5 and an eqdir cable, u could imaginey face if only the cable turned up lol, I have faith tho FLO is great :)

No, I moved jobs and one of them paid me wrong, so they didn't pay any tax on my earnings for a month (£200)... idiots! Then government screwed up on tax credits, then wanted them back - of course, months later after you have spent it, after being told you wouldn't owe them anything... (£820).

ah gooseholla i feel for you :( that seriously sucks :( id just pay back a fiver a month :(

I forfeited this year's right to credits for the debt to be wiped out. So not so bad. But I am still, technically, losing due to their incompetence.

do it

Is this for imaging, transport, size, weight, clubbing moles, the hell of it?

The choice is purely for imaging

I think there should definitely be a Cloudspotters thread on this forum.

So many arguements about which is the worst type of cloud: Altocumulus coud, Cirrus clouds, Cumulonibus clouds, Altostratus or the annoying high Cirrostratus ones that seem to appear in the evening.

I like the invisible cloud.

Lucky you. All the years I've been working I have never had a tax rebate.

type in "online tax checker" enter your details and u might be very shocked!!! :) i was with a grand owed to me :D

great thanks jake, will go through that this evening with some of my jupiter data :D

im following the guide you linked to but i just dont get this malarky loooool,,,,,, prob will take me a few weeks like normal to get my head around it...grhhh

do i enter all the single images from my avi PIPP's or do i enter the avi before its been touched by pipp lol

thanks crashtestdummy :) there are a sweeeet bit of kit arnt they :)

No hobsey didnt sell it in the end where i didnt get any interest with my add, think ill keep it now as it will come in handy i think still

Thats cool. I was thinking later on down the line I may get another one as the adapter for the guidecam to the finder is quite loose and turns easily so I was going to lock tight it on and get another one as a finder.

yes i found the SPC900 adapter quite loose also on the SW 9x50 :( bit of lock tight or some plumbers tape will do the trick tho ....

Don't you think you're making astronauts a bit self conscious?! :D

lol, i was looking at the ISS last night, just wondering what the 6 astronauts were doing at that precise time....probably getting ready for the shuttle connection :)

for me ISS = I don't care :D

Its just that time when it comes over often. Its just the same with planets, jupiter last month, mars this month. Just had my camera delivered so I will be trying to capture it tomorrow evening.

lol it orbits 15 times per day so its not going any where, well it is......1 big circle, id get dizzy up there,,,,,not that id turn down the chance to go up there :D

Is it because you have got fed up with the guiding?

Totally the other way round lol..... I AM going to beat this guiding lark!!! Just getting more efficient equipment....HEQ5 & QHY5L-ii :) :)

I keep on putting off buying the qhy5l-ii. I will do soon I think.

Whohoooooooooooooo!!

mhhhh you got me thinking about the NEQ6 now you bad bad man lol

I'm naughty, aren't I?! :D

lol your living in the wrong area buddy, east anglia looks like its going to have a nice weekend :op