Knight of Clear Skies

I gave it a miss, the sky looked well dodgy. Its a shame the forecast for the next week or so is dire as I really need to get my skates on for the 2018 IAPY.

Fingers crossed for you. I didn't have much success last night, couple errors and equipment glitches, but still had a fun session and have a couple quick images to show for it.

This is me in 5 years time, lol.   Hope you get on well with it though!

I hope so still waiting for it to clear in lincoln

Happy hunting! (im on the search for some dark stuff tonight)

Does Cornwall count? ;)

Ah, saw your location as Herts, you must be at the observatory. Still lousy here I should stay there :)

We've been really lucky down this way for clear skies recently. 3-4 clear nights every week for the last month. :)

"thats a cracker"

Cor blimey! Thats one hell of a gap!

just been looking around the country and somerset way is ad in around 2 days, were not far behind. feel sorry for people up north though

m33 this time round for me i would like :)

double figures in the season would be great, i only managed 8 hours last season on M31 :(

just some cloud free time would do me when the nights get darker.

Glad you had a nice break, what part of Spain did you go?

Thanks. Was in Catalonia, about 30 minutes drive north of Barcelona.

Look forward to seeing you results. What are you thinking of going for?

I'm imaging for the first time tonight, may just stick with the 50mm and 135mm for now.

I bought loads of old lenses for as little as £3 each if i find a good performer then i look out for a more pristine example.

Can never have enough.

very nice

28mm, thats going to be very wide.

Lucky you.

I have my Star Adventurer set up in my living room ready for to grab it for when there is clear patches.

Good luck if you do. If it's not one thing ruining clear skies, its another.

It's either too windy to do anything or there is a full moon.

Not tonite punk!

Too much chance of a random shower to risk it.

It is clouding over, looks like 10-15% of the sky is clear patches.

Not the most satisfying session, but did get to check my modded camera reaches infinity focus and could make out the Sadr Region in a 30 second test shot.

nice one mate! you know your have straight clouds for a month tho....typical lol, can not wait to see your 1st light :)

Thanks both of you. Yes, the weather is pretty dire at the moment - karma for the clear run I had when I first got my tracking mount...

I'm looking forward to seeing the results!

oh no hope everyone is ok

Yeah, all fine thanks, although I had been standing under it 5 minutes before it came down to position some buckets and towels. Insurance will take care of it, it's just a pain.

Like you say, at least no one got hurt. All the best with getting sorted.

Are you trying to get rid of or trying to photograph them?

Photograph. ;) A local wood has a huge number of squirrels living in it, must have seen two dozen.