SnakeyJ

Thanks!!

Guys, I think I found the ultimate telescope all-weather cover...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weather-Blanket-Reusable-Orange-Silver/dp/B000BS01SW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370619759&sr=8-1&keywords=space+blanket+insulation

That would do the job, with a little sewing or tape seams to make it in to a bag.

We've had the sun for a couple of hours this afternoon - almost felt like spring, but sadly a brief interlude before another round of heavy rain for tonight and Saturday.

Word of advice: Do not collect 2 wives. Did you know that the Chinese idiogram for "trouble" is 2 women under 1 roof. ;-)

Clever people the Chinese - However I think in the case it's one of each sex, though I think Noah included a family ticket for his sons and their wives. The 2 x 2 bit may be a more recent lyrical interpretation.

i know what your saying, its nice just to kick back sometimes and forget all the ins and outs that come with imaging :)

Not saying I didn't miss the camera, Saturn and Jupiter were stunning and the seeing was good on Friday night and fair to good Saturday. Seeing Saturn at 600x in a 24" obsessions with powermate/ethos is extreme temptation, thank godness I left the plastic at home :)

wowza! 600x in a 24"'er!!! i can only imagine lol :D

Bit of a damp squib at this end, though there were a few distant flashes :(

Passed us to the east and west so saw lots of lightening but never really got much thunder. A lot of rain though!

Hopefully we'll catch some of that rain soon - I've just emptied the water butt and the garden is starting to brown off!

Joys of having the observatory - just fired the laptop up to go out and put my boots on - the lawn looks like one big mud slide ;)

ohhh how i envy you and your obs haha :) enjoy buddy, hope you get some decent views before the cloud comes back :(

Seeing is good, but wind and ckoud a nightmare

Try the following:

"Come out here and have a look at the moon lady".

"Oh yes that is lovely man, I am really glad you bought that scope its was an excellent investment given the beautiful views we can now share"

Haha ;)

Gee, thanks for them clouds ;)

Hey its clear down here and I'm hoping to get out a little later - not expecting clouds in these parts til I take delivery (and the following 12 weeks)!

I often as a child wished for a butler to do my homework

I'm pacing myself ;) Very impressed with the quality of content and presentation so far.

I too have finished the first week, though will be re-visiting bits of it. Really does get you thinking about a lot of things.

is that on a discovery

This maybe of some help to you, beemer online catalogue as exploded views so you can see how it goes together.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/select.do

Thanks Faulksy - it's a 525i SE, E39. Cheers Hobsey - I shall look that up, part ordered for £ 204 at local BMW Dealer ouch!!

I think it's the coldest night tonight...

Hehe - got my thermals on too - was pretty nippy last night, so learnt me lesson!

Well I may be prepared - but the seeing is pants! and much low cloud :(

Hmmm... I think the Blue might be hit more by moonlight than you think. You've probably got about another 30min before gradients kick in. Im on SII now, before going back to M31 for a Ha top-up.

I just managed the blue, but green looks very thin now under the moon - I'll capture 20 mins worth then move on and have a crack at Neptune and Uranus - that way I'll be ready for Jupiter if the clouds keep away!

managed about 1.5 hrs on m31 so far moons just coming over the tip of the house, may image some star fields and try and learn to process star colour nice to be out though!!!

Pics or it didn't happen.

There's some pics up in the Lounge, or my gallery. A 1982 10" F6+ with H Widley Optics. Needs some attention, but the optics should be good after a recoat - can't complain for £ 34 ;)

oh yes it is a must i run mine of a generic ps3 pad on a usb cable

have a play with the display options, the main issue is its not as fluid on panning about.. Hold middle button iirc

Cheers Daniel and Earl - just found myself a Logitech Wingman Cordless Rumblepad for £ 5 :)

keep it up

Well done Jake, keep it up. I've stopped smoking for 12 years now. Just need to work on my other vices.

Cheers Lee and Gutross - still on the straight and narrow.

Thanks Chris I managed about 90GB, or 15 runs on Jupiter at just under 4x (3800mm on my 200P). Seeing was pretty reasonable and I also managed a little lunar IR at the f/l as a quick experiment.

Great evening, but now the kids are up it's impossible to find the time to process anything!!

Lol, I constantly being nagged by missus because I am processing instead of playing with the kids.

BTW. Nice capturing.

I've just had it in the neck myself - though fair play ;)

Cloud is clearing here and the sky is dark and clear. Forecast is promising clear until 5am - tho believe it when after the event ;)

beautifull so far and seeing has improved in the last 30 mins

Hope you guys got some in, patchy cloud came in down here and thickened gradually over night :( No chance on Jupiter this morning!

Blimey you have one hell of Southerly View don't you ? !

Ha I realize there is Triangulum Australe too!?

It's not bad, but I loose the east to trees - judicious pruning required.

Whatever you do, don't mix it with alcohol, very unpleasant..!

Add a little Ketomin into the mix. Effect lasts for hours then :-)

Hmm, think I can cope without that thanks very much. I'll stick with brufen and paracetamol ;)

what mount are you using? you can achieve 30s with a simple polar alignment, if your guiding, bang out a 5min sub and see how it looks :D

I'm getting too much noise on M27 and M92 - will have to try again dropping the iso down from 800 to 200 ish, though not sure if I will resolve more detail like this - the mount is the heq5 pro with Rowan belt mod, but PA a little suspect and needs some more tuning/drift alignment.

I'm getting too much noise on M27 and M92 - will have to try again dropping the iso down from 800 to 200 ish, though not sure if I will resolve more detail like this - the mount is the heq5 pro with Rowan belt mod, but PA a little suspect and needs some more tuning/drift alignment.

Couldn't even see that down here in Cornwall - in fact couldn't even see the end of the garden and that is less than 40ft away!

Moon vs Jupiter, only game in town !

Hmm - I did see the moon and a very dim, fleeting Jupiter at it highest elevation - fog stayed in all night. What a shame the IOW doesn't have any bigger hills so I could climb up out of the fog :(

I've managed to get some AVIs of Jupiter with the GRS, but high cloud has played havoc with the quality :(

I did get 45 minutes of pretty good, just waiting for PIPP to presort my capture, but some looks ok even @ F22 - lets hope I get one reasonable set!

I processed one of my AVIs and to be honest they look really bad. Can't see much coming out of mine. Hope yours are better :)

Really nice skyt, but quite gusty wind - focusing on NGC6543

Its very good here, I should have gone to the dark site.

Yep great skies so far, but cloud on the way down from the north, so you may catch this first. Nice the moon hasn't risen yet!

Dew stopped play at 01:15hrs - who forgot to turn the heaters on? Great night though ;)

I had an excellent night too :-)

Yep, the Milky Way was very vivid as well...

what guidescope are you using with the firefly? Just out of interest...always wondered if it could do the job.

Dan - I'm using this with the Celestron Travelscope 70 - Poor mans finder solution;)

Thread @

And it Works! Shame about that full moon ;)

Oh and the clouds, which are winning so far :(

Here we go 40 x 15sec Lum

Gave up due to clouds but got some reasonable Lum data

Turn in early? No, you can't do that :-D

Looks like the clouds would stop me anyway - and after three nights I have been so grumpy with the kids. Tomorrow night looks good though and rumours of better seeing ;)

Will be cloudy later tonight...