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Whoo hoo! we had stars in Lowestoft last night. ? Not sure what was to blame for the dodgy images, was it the bad weather/Christmas lay-off affecting my kit or was the old astronomer using it to blame?
Got out the 66mm Altair refractor on the Star Adventurer and my trusty bins , didn't get to bed until 3:30am. Anyway I have a few more blurry images of 46P/ Wirtanen and I think I managed to capture a smudge that might be 38P/Stephan-Oterma. Could see 46P through my 11x80 bins handheld but very diffuse and cloud like would have missed it 'sweeping' but knew where to look. 38P not visible through my bins even though I knew where it should be, however the mince-pies aren't what they used to be.
Real nice treat - saw a very bright and orange coloured meteor - slow moving in the east comiing from the direction of Orion. No it wasn't a flare or firework!
Nice clear night and dark after the Moon set, M81 and M82 very easy handheld through my big bins.
George tired but quite content in Lowestoft.
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The pictures may be blurry, but the effort was pure and I'm sure very exciting I am well and doing more observing than imaging these days. I did just get a nice image of M42 (an annual shot) and I'm looking forward to get a few pics of the lunar eclipse this weekend. I'm wishing you the clearest skies for this event. Oh, and how was the cold dive for charity?
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Hi Reggie
Glad you're ok. Hope you have clear skies for the Lunar eclipse, I might try and image it if the weather looks good. As for the cold water dip on Christmas morning; well the good news was we had sunshine and no wind, the bad news was the hard frost and air temperature of 1 degree celsius. It was so cold! My partner stayed in the water for 10 minutes, I managed 2 minutes but she had the benefit of a wet suit.