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Looks like the best group in some months. Only chance of any break in the cloud here looks like Friday but I will be at work. Good hunting Charl

thanks Dave, yes mate its a very interesting group , weathers the same here today, I'm hunting but carnt see the pray, heres hoping for a break in the weather, charl.

I just had a terrible night too! Set up all my gear (deep sky and lunar scopes) got them properly cooled, polar aligned and focused. The night started well and I got a good set of terminator images. By the time I was guiding on a DSO with the other scope, clouds rolled in and didn't clear until I pack everything away at 2am. I was really looking forward to snapping M105 and the Leo triplet! Now I'm tired and want to start a less weather dependent hobby.

thanks Tzitzis, its not looking too bad thismorrning mate, theres some thin cloud but might have a few shots of sol when it rises.  clear skys, charl.

thanks spaceman, I got a few shots of the moon at 4.30 pm but nothing after, hopefully tonight will be better, don't want to have to watch big brother with the misses again, theres only so much a man can take. clear skys charl.

Yep! Hoping the wedge works well, and looking forward to some nice clear days to test it out when I get it.  

Merry Christmas Charl!

thanks mate, Merry Christmas Tzitzis.

Morning Charl,

It's stuck in UK customs now, they've sent me two sheets of A4 questions none of which seem relevant to an item originally purchased in the UK and returned to the USA for repair under warranty.

They seem determined to try and charge duty on something out of principal 

Merry Christmas

Dave 

morning Dave, darn customs, duty has already been paid on it mate, when first imported. id just write on the form "sent for repair and a photocopy of the recet, or maybe try and get them on the phone ,thay must have a helpdesk. merry Christmas mate, I was hoping for some sun thismorrning but its 100% cloud at the moment.  charl.

Thanks Charl,

You'd think in this day and age it could be done on the internet, "luckily" the Sun is pretty quiet and too low ATM so hopefully it will get here eventually.

Then we just have to hope it's been fixed, I remember a couple of posts where peeps have sent their Quark to Daystar for repair and got them returned with the same fault.

Grey murk here again, had a surprise bit if clear sky last night but I wasn't ready, hadn't recharged the power pack 

Good news, my brake calipers for the camper van came back today after a month away being refurbished so if we get some decent weather over christmas I can get them refitted and be ready for the next star party.

ATB

Dave 

Fingers crossed Charl. Been too much mist/haze around on the nights you could see some stars, so hoping for a nice clear night too!  

thanks Gus, its 5pm and its starting to clear here, its a bit hazy cos the sun came out at 2pm and started sucking water vapour back up, hopefully it will dissipate by 7 or 8ish, hope you get some clear, charl.

Tried nabbing Venus and Mars about 30 mins ago. Venus was blazing away whilst I took my dog for a walk, but hiding behind the clouds when I got the scope out alas. Hoping for clear skies later on at least. 

I think everywhere apart from scotlands going to be clear later Gus, ive both scopes cooling " 200p and Ar127l", heres hoping the seeings stays good for us. charl.

Fingers crossed. My weather apps and FLO is telling me different times for any clear skies, so as usual the best thing to do is keep poking my head outside to check. 

Hoping for clear skies when I get back home from Thursday night and the weekend  Charl. Hope you get a nice long spell mate!  

thanks mate, I'm just getting a warm and I'm back out to see how far I can push my subs on the Pleiades. hope its clear for you on Thursday.  charl. 

Sounds like a good pair Charl. Pity the clouds got in the way.  

thanks Gus, I was just starting to get to grips with them, I'm well pleased with them, very nice contrast on par with the ed80, was hoping to bag a few goodies in orion but the clouds 100% now, ill look forward to the next clear night.  charl.

thanks Dave, yer mate ,well things can only get better, thay carnt get any worse, hope we all get some clear sky soon, charl. ps it could be my fault ive just brought a new camera tripod and a few bits.

Tuesday is supposed to be a good day, but not holding my breath for it just in case!  

thanks Gus, yer ive got my fingers crossed mate, theres loads of good winter goodes coming into view and i hate missing them, clear skys ,charl.

Managed a couple of hours last night until 10pm. Got the darkest skies until the moon crept up, and managed to see the Saturn nebula for the first time, and I think I got Neptune too, so well chuffed!  

sounds like you had a goodnight Gus, the sat-neb is quite a hard one in the vis, it stayed cloudy here for most of the night mate, im hoping for better skys tonight.  charl.

The Goto mount helps a lot here. If I had to star hop to find it I don't think I would have found it as easy.  

Hope you had some nice skies for your widefield stuff Charl!  

thanks Knighty, as soon as it got dark clouds came from all directions, im hoping tonight will be better, we have had a cold wind here allday so if the sky is cloud free it should be fair seeing. hope ya have clear sky. charl.