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  1. RayGil
    Imaging report for 27/28th July 2011
    I arrived at my dark sky site at around 22:35 and conditions were a little hazy but clear, there was a weather front moving in from the West but I was sure I had a few hours before it arrived. I quickly got the scope set up, I took the SkyWatcher 120mm short tube imaging refractor with me tonight instead of the 200p.
    I checked polar align app on the Iphone to get the correct alignment position and polar aligned the scope and started with a 2 star goto set-up, which used Arcturus and Vega, this was successful 1st time and my first alignment test was M13 followed by Capella and I left the scope tracking Capella for 10 minutes while I sorted out the rest of my gear. On returning to the scope Capella was still centered in the 32mm eyepiece and I swung the scope over to Arcturus for a final alignment and focus test, fitting the Bahtinov mask and Canon 350D at prime focus.

    Once I was happy with the alignment and tracking I swung the scope over to M16 and open cluster in Serpens and at 23:27 proceeded to take 10 images at 20 second exposure @ISO1600.
    At 00:00 I swung over to M31 The Andromeda Galaxy which was located in the North East and well above the horizon, it looked very nice through the camera viewfinder and once I was happy with the equipment I started imaging. I took 25 30 second images @ISO1600 and then 20 Blacks. M31 is 2.5 million light years distant from us, and is made up of 300 Billion stars and is a spiral galaxy.

    At 00:43 I did another refocus test on Arcturus and then moved onto M17 The Swan Nebular and Images were 10 20 seconds exposures @ISO1600, and 10 blacks. M17 was located in the South-West but still suffered slightly with distant light pollution but nothing to spoil the image. The nebular is 10 light years long, and 40 light years wide and at a distance of 5,000 light years away from us.

    I also tried to image NGC 7662 and Pluto, but these images need further analysis and maybe put to one side for a future session, especially the pluto wide field image.
    I ended the session at 01:25 and packed up and headed home, conditions by this time had worsened and the cloud from the West was beginning to encroach on the horizon.
    26th/27th July
    Image of Jupiter and Moons

    Ray
  2. RayGil
    One of my pics had made it into the broad sheets, so pleased: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8613894/Spectacular-display-of-space-clouds-illuminates-skies-across-Britain..html
    My NLC Images are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/raygil/
    Hope you like them.
    Ray
  3. RayGil
    Birkrigg, Ulverston Cumbria
    3rd June 2011
    Main Target tonight was M51 The Whirlpool galaxy and the recently discovered Supernova SN2011dh.
    Arrived at my main imaging site at aprox 22:25 arrived at Birkrigg, conditions were better than the previous night, only slight cloud drifting on the horizon. Set up the EQ5 and polar aligned, balanced the scope and fitted the canon 350D prime focus.
    Once 3 star alignment had been successful, I tried point it various test objects to make sure alignment was centred correctly. Because I had plenty of time, I did a star tracking test and made some very slight adjustments.
    At 23:44 I fitted the Bahtinov mask and did a focus test on Vega, then swung the scope over to M51 the Whirlpool galaxy and did a 30 second exposure, checked the image and zoomed in on the back of the camera to check for image trails, everything looked good, set the camera to ISO 1600 and 30 second exposures, and started imaging M51 at 23:47. I took 47 x 30 second exposures and then proceeded to take 20 blacks with the scope capped. I had great reservations on whether my equipment was capable of capturing Supernova SN2011dh, the SkyWatcher 120mm short tube refractor performed very well, and I think the supernova was at the limits of my tracking capabilities, but this will improve in the future when I finally get an auto-glider, but for now all my DSO images are unguided.
    at about 00:45 i noticed a cloud bank drifting across and it was large, so I had a choice of either sitting it out or packing up for the night, I decided that packing up was the best option, I had achieved my goal for the night, imaging M51.


    Ray
    Cumbrian Skies
  4. RayGil
    April 3rd 21:00 - 00:30 Birkrigg Common - Cumbria
    Skywatcher 200p + EQ5 + SynScan
    April 3rd at 00:00 saw Saturn in opposition and at it's closest to earth for a year, at just under 750 Million miles away from the Earth. Like many other like minded imagers and astronomers I was out at a dark sky site for a few hours, taking in the spectacular wonder of our solar system! Saturn with it's truly stunning rings and Moons, Dione, Rhea, Tethys and Enceladus being the closest but Saturn has many moons, over 60 in total. Saturn will dominate the night sky this month.
    Still visible this month is the double cluster in Perseus, NGC 869 and NGC 884 and I checked the cluster out last night using the Skywatcher 200p and a wide FOV 32mm eyepiece, which just fits the double cluster into the field of view.
    NGC 869 is also know as "h Persei" is composed of over 350 stars and is over 70 light years in diameter and over 7,500 light years distant from us.
    NGC 884 is also know as "Chi Persei" and has over 300 stars in its group and roughly the same distance away as NGC 869. The double cluster makes for compelling viewing as it has many red giants and is a great hunting ground, I can spend hours looking at these two clusters and I always find something of interest. The constellation Perseus has many open clusters, Nebula and a Galaxy. The double cluster is a jewel in the night sky, low power shows it best and it is always one of my test objects for sky clarity.
    The great globular cluster in Hercules is visible and always worth a look and from a really dark site it produces some of the best views of a cluster in the night sky. My old 130mm reflector showed it well but mainly a fuzzy center with stars located around the edge. My 200mm reflector with a 10mm eyepiece fitted makes the globular cluster truly breathtaking, the detail leaps out at you, a nicely packed central core of over 1 million stars, take a second to think about that, over 1 million stars packed into this cluster! The cluster is over 100 light years in diameter and is roughly 25,000 light years distance from us. This cluster is also very old, 10 Billion years old! Nearly as old as the universe itself, which is estimated to be 13.7 Billion years.
    Even though the skies are getting lighter in spring, M57 in Lyra is still very good, The Planetary Nebula or Smoke Ring, is still unmissable, though losing definition as we move through the year.
    Two galaxies to view this month are M81 and M82 in Ursa Major; these galaxies are 8 Million light years away. M81 is a spiral galaxy and M82 is an Irregular galaxy. Using my 8" telescope and a 32mm eyepiece fits both galaxies into the field of view and from a dark sky site makes viewing these two galaxies a must this month.
    Another galaxy to check out is M51, the whirlpool galaxy. I checked this last night 03/04/2011 using my 8" scope and it’s an impressive sight, I found if you slightly defocused the image, the spiral arms are easier to make out. At an impressive distance of nearly 40 million light years away this galaxy is worth checking out.
    2 Double stars next:
    61 Cygni in Cygnus is one of the closest double stars to us in the night sky, at 11.4 light years distance. 2 Orange stars, the primary star is 5.5 magnitude the secondary is 6.4.
    Mizar and Alcor, magnitude 2.4 primary and secondary 4.0, an easy double for small scopes and binoculars.
    Ray Gilchrist
  5. RayGil
    GOTO Telescopes.

    Being someone who has had both types of scopes and mounts I can honestly say I have learned more with the GOTO setup than I have ever learned with the manual set up.
    Previous to my current setup which is a SkyWatcher 200p (8” Mirror) and a EQ5 with SynScan GOTO added I have either manual mounts or mounts with a RA tracking motor for photography.
    Both Refractors and Reflectors and I certainly prefer reflectors unless you have a very large wallet.
    Now unless you use your telescope for large bright objects and have loads of free time then I would certainly choose the GOTO every time.
    If you like me and have a work schedule and family like to slot in around you hobby (should that be the other way around?) You will find a manual telescope very frustrating on anything other that the brightest object in out solar system.
    I may only have a couple of hours to go out with the scope and I have spent many frustrating hours searching for DSO’s (Deep Space Objects) and getting nowhere, arriving back home without seeing the objects I was searching for. What did I learn from this experience? Space is very big!
    Now since having the GOTO option I have learned, a lot about Polar alignment, how to set up and telescope correctly, how to align a telescope to 3 bright stars, to get correct alignment. Just learning the bright visible stars is an achievement and if you go at different times of the night and months throughout the year you get to learn all about the local bright stars that you need to know for correct alignment.
    When I go out these days it what used to take me 10 minutes to set up (Manual) now takes me 30-40 minutes to get everything, balanced, polar aligned, and GOTO 3 star alignment set up, but once set up correctly that is it for the observing session.
    A full catalogue of objects and planets are at my finger tips, full visual tracking of objects, anyone who has manually found DSO objects in the eyepiece only for a few seconds later is gone? Things move fast out there! The bigger your scope and the higher power eyepiece you use the smaller your field of view and you are constantly adjusting your scope, where as with the GOTO option once correctly set up objects remain the the FOV for very much longer in fact nearly all night if required.
    I can spend most of my evenings observing session actually viewing the objects I wanted to view from my observing lists, and yes I'm learning more about the night sky than ever before simply because GOTO made it a less frustrating experience and allowed me to spend my time with the telescope doing what I like to do, which is view our vast expanding universe.
    People who say to me you are not learning about the hobby is rubbish, I have learned more since I went GOTO than ever before, If you want to learn the sky manually that's great get a star map book and a pair of binoculars and enjoy your hobby, but to say to me I know more about the sky than you, could be true? But ask your self this! What did you come into the hobby for? To sit there night after night learning star charts so you could point out to people oh there is M31 or M57? Or did you come into the hobby to view the wonders of the night sky and out planets? Just because I have a GOTO telescope does not mean I'm not learning, in fact I could point out a vast amount of objects and planets in out sky, simply because once GOTO has positioned the scope and cantered the object, that's not the end! I step back from the eyepiece and look up “Oh that's where it is” can I see it in binoculars? What's the nearest constellation? Any bright known stars in the FOV. GOTO simply means you have options, how you use those options depends on the person. For me the whole galaxy is there, and other galaxies as well so don't be an Astro Snob! GOTO is a fantastic achievement for the average astronomer and has released the hobby into the 21st century
    .
    My telescope time is no longer a frustrating experience and is more a giant learning curve learning about DSO’s, nebula’s and galaxies and I’ve now moving on to astro-photography this again is another massive learning curve, but now I have the time to learn about the photography side knowing that I can at least find the DSO objects next step is photographing them
    Ray Gilchrist
  6. RayGil
    Observation Report 15th November 2010
    After nearly 2 weeks of poor skies and incompatible shift pattern I decided that a early morning start was required and the sky was clearing nicely.
    I set off to my dark sky site (Birkrigg Common) at 01:45 and arrived at 02:17, Birkrigg is a Moore on a fell side and trying to get to my usual place was proving very difficult, the grass was very wet and deep ruts in the mud. I tried for 10 minutes to reach my usual place but all I was doing was digging the car in deeper, sliding and wheel spinning across the grass. Before I got totally stuck I abandoned the attempt and slowly spun the car around and crept off the side of the fell, sticking in places but managed to get back to the road. Left Birkrigg at 02:45 and headed back into Barrow, but as the sky was totally clear it would have been a wasted trip to give up.
    I went to my local Asda and topped up with the petrol, I was running very low.
    My second observing area was over on South Shore Walney Island, but this does suffer some light pollution from B.A.E (Ship Building), which is very well lighted to the North, North-East from South Shore.
    This was my first attempt at astro-photography with the Canon 350D and initial dark frame tests proved good.
    I arrived at South Shore Walney Car Park, right by the ocean and proceeded to get my equipment set-up. (At least this was Tarmac and a solid surface).
    A beautiful clear sky with Orion due south and no bright Moon to interfere with photography, (Although the Moon would have made a nice test subject)
    I started to set the scope up at 03:15 and polar aligned and 2 star SynScan alignment was successful first time. The first alignment test was M13 but this was really well down and in the direction of the light pollution. The next alignment test was M45 Pleiades which this was a successfully centred in the eyepiece, the next object was M42 the Orion Nebular which this again was successful.
    Spent a short while just visually observing M45, M42 as these were really bright and crystal clear, I was slightly apprehensive about connecting the DSLR to the scope having spent a good hour chatting on Twitter about the advantages of using a auto guider system. (Which I don’t have).
    At 04:15 I concluded it was time to a least do some test with the Canon 350D, and took various photographs (Raw+Jpg) of The Pleiades and The Orion Nebular.
    As there was a dew on the car I fitted the dew cap to the scope, this also acts as a stray light cap. I decided to check on Saturn as pocket universe for the Iphone told me it was rising about now, I swung the scope around and sure enough Saturn was just above the horizon, but in the dirty band of the horizon and seeing was not very good also the light pollution from that side interfered with viewing condition. But welcome back to my old friend Saturn it’s been a good few months since I viewed this planet, and although low down, the ring was clear enough although the whole planet was a dirty Yellow colour and blurry, with no real definition.
    At 05:00 I decided that I had done enough tests for tonight and packed all the gear away. Once done I sat in the car to head home and turned the key, and nothing! Battery was dead, I’m not sure if the cold had zapped the battery or there is another fault?
    I had to phone my wife for the recovery details, which in the end I didn’t use, I remembered my friend Andy, who is a Taxi driver and never sleeps whilst there is money to be made! A quick phone call and he was on route from Barrow town centre in his T5 Taxi, once he arrived, the jump leads connected and my car fired first time! So it was a quick cup of coffee with Andy and a chat and I eventually arrived home at 05:40 and emptied the car and stored all my gear away and was tucked up in bed by 06:10.
    Good Points:
    My feet were kept warm all night – Fur lined Boots recommended by @ramfrancisuk on Twitter.
    The DSLR Canon 350D performed very well.
    My Olympus Voice recorder worked well.
    Bad Points:
    EQ5 and SynScan alignment and tracking were poor due to my poor Polar Alignment I guess!
    My car battery died.
    Things to do before next session:
    Find the Jump leads, I may have been able to start car from the Power Tank if I have put the leads in the car!
    Read up more on Polar Alignment and Star Tracking tests.
    Find all the breakdown info and keep this info in the glove box. In the car?
    Apologise to my wife for getting her out of bed at 05:10 :mad:
  7. RayGil
    Observation Report for 25/10/10
    Finished work at 23:20 and drove home and got my thermal clothes and collected all the gear and packed the car.
    Arrived at my observing site at 00:30, and quick scan of the sky pretty much same as last night, Orion rising in the East, Jupiter sat nicely in the South West.
    The Moon of course is dominating the night sky at present, very bright in dead, washing out almost everything in the sky, and making my dark sky site very light indeed.
    00:40 – 01:10 Fully set up, Polar aligned and balanced, full 3 star SynScan set successful and first test object M31 at 01:10. Andromeda galaxy was fully centered in the 32mm eyepiece, and looking very much washed out, the central core of the galaxy is visible but as for anything else just blended into the bright background.
    The 2nd test object was the double cluster in Pegasus, but this was slightly off in the eyepiece? Quick adjustment needed.
    The 3rd test object was M42 the Orion Nebular, and this was missed by quite a way, so I'm not sure whats going on with the SynScan unit?
    01:45 – Time is pressing on, so decided to go view Jupiter with the zoom eyepiece 7-21mm and the x2 barlow lens, Jupiter was looking very nice indeed, nice cloud belt showing up and also moons lined up nicely.
    02:00 – Saw 2 bright meteors trailed from East to West, decided it was time to do some Iphone photography and the clarity of the moons craters on the southern limb were outstanding. I used the Sky Watcher zoom eyepiece with two moon filters stacked, and this made moon viewing more acceptable on the eye and also gave the Iphone camera a chance at capturing some detail from the craters.
    I did notice the seeing condition around the moon were very clear, giving a nice bright crisp image.
    I'm not sure whether its the cold or just my back hasn't fully recovered yet, but still in a little pain, more noticeable when I'm at the eyepiece, either stretching to view or bending to view through the eyepiece.
    I spent a great deal of time just viewing the Luna surface its been a long time since I have seen conditions like this. Conditions gave a crystal clear Luna surface and worth suffering the odd back twinge for. (Extreme Astronomy).
    Saw another 2 meteors and possible a Chinese lantern drifting across the bay? Hate these lanterns always make you think your seeing something very strange until you get the binoculars on them.
    The 200p scope is doing a great job of tracking the Moon even at high magnification, its very rare I have to touch the main control direction buttons, and always keeps the target in the center of the eyepiece.
    Again the coldest part of my body is my feet? It must be the wet grass up there, then icy conditions on top. (Really! going to have to sort this out).
    Saw another two meteors this time they went from the South to the North. All this looking skyward is doing my back no favours. I could almost read by this bright moon, no need for any red light torches tonight.
    The shadowing on the craters tonight is exceptional and trying to capture an accurate representation of what I can see in the eyepiece. The Iphone is doing a good job and I’m took plenty of pictures.
    At 02:24 I finished taking photographs and some final shots of the craters. With Jupiter starting to get quite low in the South West I decided at 02:40 to call it a night and get things packed up.
    Arrived home and unpacked at 03:15 and started to check images.
  8. RayGil
    24/10/2010
    Birkrigg Common – Cumbria
    01:30 – 03:30
    Spent Saturday night at work but I was itching to get out with the scope, it’s been well over a week since the last session. Since then I have strained some muscles in my back, changing a light bulb of all things?
    Still I’ve put up with it for a week now so it was not going to stop me getting out, what made it worse though, is I slept heavy and had a stiff neck as well, think I’m falling apart?
    I finished work at 00:20 and drove home to get changed and pack all my equipment in the car for the drive to Birkrigg, arrived at 01:00. A Very bright full Moon and Orion in the East, Jupiter in the South/West.
    Started to set up the EQ5 and balanced the scope and polar aligned the mount. Struggled to polar align straining my neck to look through the polar scope on the EQ5, not a good start. Set the SynScan until up and aligned using 3 stars, and was successful my first test object as always is M31, Andromeda galaxy, even with the full bright moon washing the galaxy out, the central core was perfectly aligned in my 32mm eyepiece. Next alignment test was M42 Orion Nebular, which again it was positioned correctly in the eyepiece.
    Quick scan of the skies produced nothing on the comet, but on checking the RA & Dec I was too late, the comet was already below my horizon at this time 01:45, so I decided to go and do some CoolPix and Iphone photography.
    One of the disadvantages of photographing the full Moon is apart from the intense brightness it is also difficult to get any definition from the lunar features.
    My main eyepiece for this observation session is the Skywatcher 7-21mm Zoom eyepiece fitted with 2 Moon filter back to back, this would not only allow comfortable viewing but also allow me to at least get a little contrast and definition from the lunar surface.
    At 01:55 I checked on the Double Cluster, and then onto Jupiter. The great red spot was visible and usual cloud belt but viewing anything other that the bright moon was going to be difficult, so back to the Moon for more photography.
    For the next 90 minutes I used the Nikon CoolPix Camera, Canon D30 DSLR and the IPhone to photograph the Moon using a variety of lenses and adapters, but I can honestly say the IPhone is a very easy camera to use. The App I use is Camera + which allows some degree of exposure adjustment and for bright objects such as the Moon, this comes in very handy.
    By 03:30 I was freezing cold and uncomfortable from the back and neck strain and also the freezing conditions; my feet were like blocks of ice. This was due to the previous nights heavy rain, and the ground being so damp, then freezing temps just froze everything.
    I packed every thing up at 03:30 and was back home by 04:05, unloading the car and getting warm was the first priority.
    More Iphone Pictures on my Main blog page:
    http://rays-place-on-the-net.blogspot.com/
  9. RayGil
    Obervation Session 16/10/2010
    00:00 – 02:30 Birkrigg Common Cumbria.
    Arrived at Observation site at roughly 23:45 and started to set up, Hate setting up in the dark, with only the odd torch and my head lamp.
    Once the scope was set up, balanced and polar aligned I proceeded to set the Synscan unit up, using the 2 star alignments.
    A quick visual scan of the skies, Orion was just coming up nicely in the East, Jupiter was high in the South East and the Moon had already set.
    My first test object was of course M31 and the Next was the Double Cluster, both of which it found quickly and I was happy with the alignment tests.
    Cassiopeia was nearly directly overhead and it was time to try and locate the comet at 00:48.
    Comet found at 00:53 and certainly is a lot brighter tonight, easily located with binoculars for the first time, probably because it was later, and higher in the sky and tonight it was travelling through a sparser area of the sky. I could almost make it out with naked eye, but very difficult to focus and be 100% sure, although easy in binoculars.
    The comet looked less diffuse tonight, but that may be because it was so high in the sky at this time.
    At 01:15 I decided to check on Orion, it was the first time this year I have had opportunity to view Orion using the 200mm scope, and my 32mm EP.
    The Orion Nebular M42 is a truly amazing site and one not to be missed! I decided to do some photography using my Nikon CoolPix Camera and 25mm EP.
    Took a series of pictures and ranging from ISO 800 – 2000, this camera is only a point and shoot type, but has proved satisfactory in the past when photographing bright objects or planets.
    Tried various EP’s while viewing Orion, ranging from 10mm – 32mm, including the new zoom EP. All provided very good views, although the 25mm EP that came with the scope provided the best view in my opinion.
    My next object was M44 the Beehive cluster in Cancer, an open cluster and best viewed in low power eye piece, 32mm. This open cluster is very pretty to look at and contains many double and triple stars including 4 very Orange/Red stars.
    I then slewed the scope back to the Orion nebular M42 & M43, to do some more photography.
    At 02:30 I decided that I had done enough and again freezing cold conditions at this time of night, I packed the scope up and set off home, arriving back at 03:15.
  10. RayGil
    Observation Session 11/10/2010
    Birkrigg Common – Cumbria.
    Arrived at my observing site at 19:27, Conditions already look very good, a few stars were already visible and Jupiter was already high about the horizon, seeing was going to be good, a cold, crisp night.
    Started to set up the telescope, polar aligned and balanced scope, set up the Synscan unit and got ready for alignment tests. Once alignment reported successful I swung the scope to the first test object to make sure it was located in the FOV. M31 Andromeda galaxy is always a great target and being nearly a naked eye object or at very least a binocular object it is a nice easy test for the scope. Scope slewed to Andromeda and the view using the 32mm EP was stunning as always. The bright central core and wispy arms stretching right across the EP, makes a truly great test object, also M32 in the same FOV makes this a really spectacular object with a 200mm scope.
    The next object was the Double Cluster, which is one of my favourite objects to view in any size scope. As this was another successful alignment it was time to check the progress of the comet.
    At 21:07 the sky was dark enough to start looking for the comet and with the chart from http://www.astronomia.org/servlet/cometeph?lang=en&pdesign=0103P, (Thanks Mike) the data was inputted into the handset and the telescope slewed to the position, with a slight adjustment to centre the comet in the 32,, EP. The RA 03:17,8 and Dec 54:29, the information was stored in my user object settings of the Synscan unit for later recall if needed.
    Comet Harley 2 at 21:10 was still quite weak, but with dark adapted eyes and using averted vision it’s still an impressive site, small central core but very diffuse and definitely getting brighter than on previous observation sessions. Still no tail visible though. I was using the 32mm Wide field FOV Eye Piece. I tried the new zoom EP 7mm-21mm, also my 10mm and 25mm, but the 32mm still gives the best view, at 10mm there is no detail really just really fuzzy/diffuse blob.
    My next object was M34 in Perseus, since I was in that area. An open Cluster of about 80 stars. (roughly 5 light years across and 1,500 light years away from us). Another interesting cluster, containing some very nice stars and best viewed in a 32mm wide field EP.
    Onto M39 another open cluster that blends into the Milky Way. M13 the Great Globular cluster in Hercules was the next target, always an impressive site, a tight cluster in a 32mm EP but higher power shows the true size of this cluster.
    I decided at this point 22:04 to take some pictures of Jupiter and slewed the scope and centred the planet in the FOV. Then I saw something unexpected, what I first thought was the planet Uranus, but then was gone? Managed to get 2 pictures, but this object was either passing in-between Jupiter and it’s Moons or was much closer to me and just happened to be in my FOV.
    The next object on my list was M33 The Triangulum galaxy, this needs a really dark site to bring the best view, very large and using averted vision you can make out the shape of the galaxy but not a lot else. Tried various eye pieces ranging from 32mm – 10mm, and the best view came from the zoom EP set at about 14mm.
    M27 the Dumbbell Nebula was next on my observing list and this just blew me away, this is now in my top 5 objects as Must Views. Located 1,000 light years away and extends more that 2 light years in diameter and is expanding at 20 miles per second.
    Truly a breathtaking site in a 32mm wide field EP. Just hangs in space and is more pronounced then M57 the smoke ring in Lyra.
    I am wondering if a nebular filter may bring out more detail in the future?
    Time was passing by very quickly so I slewed the scope back to the comet and viewed this again, inputting the new co-ordinates into the handset. You really need dark adapted eyes and use averted vision to get the best from this comet and I’m hoping it will still pick up in brightness and form a tail later in the month.
    23:30 I decided that I was cold enough and my feet were like blocks of ice, so I packed all the gear up, also noticed that by this time everything was suffering with dew, except the scope, which had the extended dew shield fitted.
    Arrived back home about 00:00 and unpacked the gear and processed the pictures.
    Ray - :eek:
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