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Nice report. I was out looking around that area last night. It was great. Made up for not seeing the SN in m101 (annoyingly couldn't see m101)

Fantastic, wish I could sketch like that.

Hello all, Could anybody recommend a good moon map app? My main interest is DSOs but I live in a light polluted area and do quite enjoy looking at the moon. I've got a paper map but could do with something that shows the terminator as well as crater names as it is that night . I used to have one but don't remember which one Thanks

25" Obsession in a nice observatory somewhere with very dark skies. I will need a good selection of ethos and nagler eps too.

When I'm at a dark site I spend a lot of time just looking up, mainly when rhe milky way is overhead and the cygnus rift really stands out.

Nice report. How dark is your sky?

Hi all, I thought I would have a look at IC 444, small 4' x 8' reflection nebula in Gemini. I haven't looked for this one before. My sky is bortle 7/8 but IC444 is listed as mag 7 so thought with a UHC or LP filter should be OK. C/2022 E3 ((ZTF) was listed as mag 7.7 and easy to see in the 10" dob. Not a hint of the nebula. I will try again from a dark sky. Has anybody seen this from a light polluted area? Thanks Bish

Conditions very poor but spotted it my 9x63 bins . Got my 10" dob on it now. Hoping the murk will clear.

At work, so it was 10 min in the car park with eclipse glasses for me. Would have like to get an image through my scope but glad I caught it.

Great images . Images like this are a help too. I was out viewing at the same time. Some finer details I wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks (old eyes; floaters etc). This confirms if my sketch was accurate. Thanks for posting.

Fantastic image.

These are excellent.

Excellent result.

These are great. From bortle 7 with a don't impressive.

Superb. Amazing amount of detail.

Great image. Well done

I saw TESS launch at the Kennedy Space Centre in 2018 . They were giving away posters, patches, postcards, stickers etc. Grabbed one of everything. Some of it I have framed. Must dig it all out. Got a patch of Tim Peaks mission from UK Space Agency.

Thanks for your reply. Both might be an option as may not be able to recharge. Cheers

Hello all I have a celestron powertank 17ah which is fine for z couple of dew heaters on my dob. My wife now wants to go camping and I was thinking of getting a better power source to Re charge speaker, phones etc. The cheapest jackery is 240wh, and the celestron is 17ah. Would the jackery be better? Thank you

That's fantastic.

Hello all, I am planning way ahead to the 2024 eclipse. My wife is not into Astronomy and can't understand why I stand in the cold looking at faint smudges. However, she did see the 2015 and 2017 eclipses and thought they were amazing. She also really enjoyed going to the Kennedy Space centre. In 2017 we took a road trip after the eclipse through utah, arizona and nevada. She really wanted to go to area 51 because of the hype around it (which turned was a really nice scenic drive from Vegas). Because of the sight seeing and trip to Vegas I had to drive through Flagstaff and not visit the Observatory. When we go in 2024 we are going to to hopefully see the eclipse, and will also visit the space centre at Houston. My wife wants to see a lot of other sites but I will fit in a trip to the Observatory at Flagstaff . However, having read that you pay a large sum of money to look through the 82" at the Mcdonald Observatory I am now very tempted to spend the extra money for a chance to look through a massive scope. I think even my wife would be impressed with the view of spiral galaxy or nebula through that. I don't think time and other plans will allow a visit to both what do you think you would choose? Thanks all

Wow that's a monster. Don't own a solar scope but always scrounge a look at star parties.

Tough choice, but I would probably go for the comet.

Welcome to the forum

I've been trying to watch Mercury and m45 for a few days but been clouded out that part of the sky.