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Knighty2112

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  1. Just seen Eastern and Western Veil glowing brightly in ST120 with OIII - Pacman nebula also bright tonight ... 

  2. Exasperation is setting in with this hobby....decided to try imaging again due to LP killing visual observation, only to be clouded out time & time again after first sub.

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      Not an easy hobby to follow. We all have our peaks and troughs with it. Hang in, you will soon be on a peak rather than a trough. :) 

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  3. Just had new led streetlights installed on my back and front ways. Looks much darker out there, although the proof of the pudding will come when I get clear skies, but fingers crossed! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      From what I can see they shine directly down. Get a better idea tonight as forcast to be clear (fingers crossed), so should get a better idea when dark skies show. :) 

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  4. Just had new led streetlights installed on my back and front ways. Looks much darker out there, although the proof of the pudding will come when I get clear skies, but fingers crossed! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      And one light that shone quite badly into my front garden isn’t even working. As it’s on a footpath I think they had issues using the jib on the truck to reach it to change it. I’m kind of hoping it stays off permanently! ;) 

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  5. Last night I bagged 9 of the brighter Perseids, M31, M32, M110, Saturn, Mars transparency about a 6 so not much worth going after but it was worth getting to be outside all night, My favorite part. Andromeda and it's companions were quite detailed though for the seeing dust lanes just hinting, maybe some colour to be seen this year I hope. Tonight is my final attempt at the Perseids ?

  6. darn weather, Im sick of it, I must of offended the Gods :-).

    just to let you all know im still here....charl.

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      Away for work at the moment Charl, so won’t be back home till Friday. Hoping for nice clear skies for the weekend. :) 

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  7. darn weather, Im sick of it, I must of offended the Gods :-).

    just to let you all know im still here....charl.

  8. Finally, clear sky's after 8 days of cloud and rain, a whole lot of catching up to do ?

  9. Finger slipped....and I seem to have ordered an Atik Horizon......

  10. Perfect clear skies forecast tonight! Time to binge Planets!

  11. Ok, footie starting, so sees ya all later! Come on Englandddddddd! ;) 

  12. Grrrrrr.......curse of the clouds! Just got set up, had a brief view of the moon, Venus and Jupiter, and hey presto clouds roll in again! Double grrrrr...... ????

  13. Just completed my first ever collimation of a secondary mirror. Was nervous but was actually quite straight forwards. Collimation looks spot on now. All I need is some clear skies so I can do a star test!

  14. Moon and Jupiter conjunction as viewed from our backyard tonight is a real pretty thing!

  15. C'mon DHL, you've got 1hr left to deliver my EP's before I go home...

  16. Going to be stuck in a hotel away for work all this week until next Sunday, so no Astro anything for me this week apart from naked eye visual! :(  

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      On the plus side we are having a work do in a very posh hotel at the weekend, so that makes up for it a little! Hehe! ;) 

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  17. Going to be stuck in a hotel away for work all this week until next Sunday, so no Astro anything for me this week apart from naked eye visual! :(  

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      Sadly no. Just away for work in Birmingham! :( 

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  18. Clear forecast for tonight, chance for some more galaxy "lucky" imaging.

  19. Nice Sunny day, with clear skies, so doing a little WL solar (small AR group on the sun), and checking Venus out too in the daylight with my C8 SCT on my goto mount! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      In theory the larger the aperture the more the detail seen, although I did get better results from my Omni 120mm ‘frac with my Lunt wedge fitted than the larger aperture on my C8 SCT that had a normal kind of solar filter (an Explore Scientific sun catcher filter for C8) over the front end of it. 

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  20. Nice Sunny day, with clear skies, so doing a little WL solar (small AR group on the sun), and checking Venus out too in the daylight with my C8 SCT on my goto mount! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      BTW: the magnification with the 32mm EP in my C8 SCT is 63x.

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  21. Nice Sunny day, with clear skies, so doing a little WL solar (small AR group on the sun), and checking Venus out too in the daylight with my C8 SCT on my goto mount! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      I could see the small group of spots with my 32mm EP in my C8 SCT. I also got my 120mm ‘frac out to look at the spots better as I think I get a slightly better resolution than with the C8. If you have to hunt Venus down without the help of a goto mount then it might take a little hunting about for, but with patience it can be done still. Venus at the moment is so bright it’s an easy target to see even on a sunny day like today. Just be very careful when looking around to make sure you don’t get the sun anywhere near you FOV for obvious reasons. I use a solar filter on the C8 to do a solar system align on the sun, then goto Venus, take the solar filter off and normally Venus is in view in the EP easily. 

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  22. With all this Sun the last few days I'm having to try really hard not to press the trigger on a new  ZWO ASI 178MM for solar imaging :ohmy:

  23. Just blew my synguider...put the wrong supply in...started to smell something then...pop.

    Sigh...:icon_shaking:

  24. My ZWO ADC arrived today, so managed to test it out on Venus earlier on. Worked great from what I could see. Need to try it out on Jupiter and Mars for some more tests with it, but so far looking good! :) 

    1. Knighty2112

      Knighty2112

      So far just visually. Didn’t have time really to try any imaging with it. I do plan to image Mars and Jupiter with it a soon a we get a break in the persistent cloud cover. 

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  25. Managed to see Venus with my bins for about 15mins last night after sunset, and also Jupiter with my 4SE Mak for about 30mins at just gone midnight last night too. Seeing was poor due to conditions and altitude, but nice to be able to see something through the cracks in the clouds! :) 

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