Uranium235

Excellent. Guess what... I've had that email too, about an M31 pic I posted back during Star Gazing Live. I look forward to sharing some screen time!! Fingers crossed!

Congrats Gav, will keep a look out for your pic. It will be a case of me pointing at the telly while my better half wonders what all the fuss is about...lol.

Thank you and big congrats to you too! Absolutely - let's just hope it's not a complete 'blink and you miss it' moment...!

yup calmed down a tad here on m45 :)

i have 1 manhole in my property, the next manhole is shared so the water board have to clear it, not blocked for maybe 10 years now

Sympathies. I own my own drain rods, out of necessity.

It was midnight before I got it cleared. Had no rods to use, just loads of caustic soda and boiling water (it was the kitchen drain).

There is a reason why I always bang on about "no food in the sink", a plea not always heard...lol.

Will do a proper post when I have my examples to hand (would like to show before and after). Its probably the next best thing to a skyflat.

Sounds logical, my light box is too bright, made from 30mm 300 x 300 x 300 polystyrene and illuminated from white LED's , I think I might spray over the LED's with some acrylic paint to dim them down... cost so far £7 :D

Another idea was to use a white sphere over the end of the OTA, there is a white plastic globe in a local lamp shop that looks a good candidat, if I can cut it in half.... :P

Have you ever had the same problem with Lum flats? Its like there is a circular reflection or something similar in the middle of the frame - which when subtracted from the lum data, is quite noticeable.

The explorer range of newts does not have any baffles, and therefore is probably more prone to this problem - glad its sorted now becuase it means I can chase really dark stuff now.

were was this when i had a wanted advert out ! :(

Sorry to see it go though, but I definitely wont let go of the other one until the replacement has proven itself.

been there, done that :)

It was cloudy here all day so I wasn't expecting much. I've been there before - nothing worse.

trip out to the forest me thinks!!

Looking good here up until midnight!

Very misty here, no astonomising for me tonight :(.

blue sky here !

completely clear here now, bloomin cold too. Just topping up the new Rosette

yup im heading out at about 3am to capture venus for when it pops up at around 5am :D

I actually feel quite depressed right now having packed up with no Astro-joy at all tonight... Damn pea soup pants.

Same here. Forcast is clear but you can only make out the brightest stars in the sky :)

I am going to buy some Weather Dice. Just as accurate I imagine :D Good luck for next time.

May as well, its not looking good for the forseeable future :(

Which is worse than Cloudy/Cloudy/Wet/Windy/Cloudy/Cloudy - Discuss...

don't worry you have some cracking piccies to show for your efforts :)

Lucky for you!

Cloudy here :(

Lucky you, it's pants here... Fill yer wells!