Pete Presland

Nice looking image, especially for the conditions.

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire

Never too late to post images, we all lead very busy lives away from Astronomy. Some excellent activity visible there, pretty much missed all of it myself. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely Lunar halo for a while, couldn't resist aquock snap.  Bit laying on the floor to a nice angle,  with the scope blocking the glare from the Moon.

First time this  year i have been able to get a session out with the scope.  Had some nice views of Uranus and the Moon.

Could not resist grabbing a couple of images of two favourites that were on display.  Vallis Schroteri, Aristarchus in the first image and  Schickard, Nasyth, Phocylides in the second.

C9.25, asi290mm, 5000 frames captured, stacked 1000.

7 hours ago, jetstream said:

I'm in Canada, north west Ontario. The high today was -20c.

I thought that was going to be your answer, i remember someone else on here from Canada telling about the -25 temperatures and the Wolves howling!

3 hours ago, Barry-W-Fenner said:

It sure is cold out tonight, viewing conditions seem pretty decent though. Mars at x230 showing its current phase and a very subtle level of grey detail.

A fairly small adjustment and I'm now looking at Uranus, Ive spent quite a bit of time just watching that little green disc cross the FOV. A stunning planet.

Seven sisters and the moon just rising above my house roof now. The 17.5mm Morpheus will give some lovely low power views of these two.

I would like to spend some time on orion but it's a long way off being visible yet, I might have frozen before i see it tonight.

Clear skies all

Nice little session, cold and little hazy in Bedfordshire. Just come in leaving a lovely Moon Halo behind, looked pretty cool!

49 minutes ago, jetstream said:

-29c here last night with crystal clear skies.Too bad the moon was out.

That is very cold, where are you based?

4 hours ago, billhinge said:

 

I received my copy last week, 288 pages of very detailed stuff inc hardware, definitely the most comprehensive and professional planetary imaging book to date (hadn't had time to read it properly  yet)

 

Ilook forward to reading your opinion of it, thank you for reminfing me about the book.

Been earlier out with the new Bino's, had a decent look at Mars and Uranus, then the Moon. Very thick cloud here in Bedfordshire now, can not even tell where the Moon is behind them.

Thanks for sharing, it certainly is one of the stand out winter constellations.

I usually Goggle the buyer or seller, generally there will be internet history of some kind. Memberships of other sites, Facebook, Twitter other Astro related sites. Even if you can only verify they are using a real name and address.

Unfortunately their will always be the odd "bad apples" , SGL is safer than most places on the net, thanks to everyones vigilance.

I have also seen similar, when there has been a recent rocket launched. Sometimes the fuel is released and can cause odd looking phenomena, but usually not as bright or as defined as this.

Hi when/where were the photos captured, could you see the "star" before you captured the photos? If not maybe some sort of interenal reflection in the camera perhaps.

Nice report,  i do love a nice double. Auriga is full of things to see, not managed a single session yet this year.

Excellent end result

Very nice, particularly the Prom image!

Very nicely captured

Lovely looking capture

Thanks for sharing

Very nice some fine detail showing there

Certainly is, so are the clouds though. Not managed a single session yet this year!

Excellent detailed response by @Kokatha man 

Agreed, edge rind artefact.

I have tried many methods to reduce it. During capture, during stacking and final processing. I have had a little improvement by keeping the alignment boxes during stacking away from the limb areas. best idea is to have a sharpened image and an unsharpened image and using layers combine the two together to mask some of the artefact.

3 minutes ago, petevasey said:

Yes, there will definitely be weather!

Cheers,

Peter

We will have hopefully developed a cloud clearing device by then.