SteveWolves

+1 for met office, I also look at https://en.sat24.com/en/ https://www.windy.com https://www.metcheck.com

I use a streetwizeaccessories.com 12v hair dryer it claims 210W and use a separate jump start battery for my SCT and camera lenses it was bought from Towsure caravan supplies shop.

Hi Rich there are other clubs about wolvas.org.uk but Walsall is nearest for you.

Try this https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/uk/catalogues and look at Created by Oleg Maliy cdcwr:III/215 7th Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars (van der Hucht, 2001)

This happened to me with an 8" LX90 some years back but I only had 1 come out. I put the tube pointing down and gently slackened off the two other knobs till the third was able to get at the thread then had to gently screw all three in a few turns and find someone who helped me collimate.

Nice pics mate we were at the vineyard saw a few but only got a few images and there were 16 of us there.

Try joining your local astro society. see list under the resources tab at the top of the page.

Perton meet is tomorrow and is free just rock up 7pm - 9pm

Hi I would suggest joining Wolverhampton Astronomical Society www.wolvas.org.uk and coming along to the Perton Library Astronomy Group as we meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Library Thursday 21st July is the next one. Feel free to contact president@wolvas.org.uk for further info.

An a newby I suggest you join your local astro society. Welcome aboard.

Mmm it was cold but two nights observing in a row was worth the effort to get to darker skies but I am afraid I can not promise it every time we are there. Hope to see more there in the Summer camp.

Wolverhampton A.S. have just had an observing weekend at a campsite in Shropshire where I could see M44 with naked eye so a lot better than the West Midlands hope some of my pics come out ok.

Ah ok that's a no then. 😞

The old peak star party at Chelmoreton had enough power and not too many trees and we used the barn for stuff as well.

Thanks Daz sterling work, now we all have to get our thinking caps on. !!!

On Monday 7th March, Wolverhampton Astronomical Society is holding their annual free public lecture on. (poster attached). As this is a free event please share with anyone that you feel might be interested. The talk will be by Fran Bagenal who is Asst. Director for Planetary Science at the Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics, at the University of Colorado. Fran has had a pretty impressive career, she's now doing research and is professor emerita at the University of Colorado in Boulder which is where the talk is coming from (it'll be lunchtime there). I got in touch with her a couple of years ago when I was preparing my talk on the Voyager missions. Her love is Jupiter but she's worked on Voyager, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons etc etc. and chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group. Throw some tricky questions at her and she'll love it. She's got a great sense of humour too!! The lecture will be about an hour in length on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oZM-yX1JFy8 Then after the talk (not before) we will open up a Zoom Q&A session with the speaker: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89430028493?pwd=T0VDbzJPSjdGWm45NjR4dUxweDkzZz09 Meeting ID: 894 3002 8493 Passcode: 059920 Paul Pope 2022 Fran Bagenal poster v3.pdf

Utter madness and I have told them so.

Have a look at the resources tab at the top of the main page there is a society finder there.

I have just bought a 12v hairdryer from Towsure in Halesowen and will use it with a separate jump start battery 17Ah

You can try the resources tab at the top of the page and use the astro society finder, I just found 26 by you!

Great news, all power to your knife & fork.