pipnina

Well, planets are still possible from home (Maybe pluto exempt) but attempting deep sky from home is a no-go. I tried to look for M51 the other night and I couldn't even make out the right star patterns to find it by, washed out. From home the sky is mag 4.2 in the best spot, M51 is probably in the region of mag 3.7. Since I can't drive I can't get to a dark site by myself and my dad goes to bed at 11 on work nights (6 days a week). Until september when the clocks change back there isn't much for me in deep sky at this point. I might try a few but I'd guess it to be fruitless. If daylight savings weren't a thing I'd probably have another month...

Planets are possible all year round, thankfully. So it's not an astronomy blank spot in the year at least.

Borrow Dad's car ?

Unless Plymouth is ready for utter mayhem and I'm ready to be evicted I don't think so!

It's possible that, maybe if the weather holds I'll get 40/50 minutes at the dark site tomorrow. (astro dark starts about 20 minutes earlier than I thought it did, hehe). I'll start making a proper list I guess... I can't foresee any sessions beyond that, though.