Hawksmoor

Just opened my Sky at Night Magazine and noticed your fine image of Saturn is 'Photo of the Month'. Well done and well deserved - a beautiful and detailed image.

best regards from  George

Have an excellent Christmas Reggie!

best wishes from George and Anita (Mrs H)🎄🎄

Cold and windy night here on the coast. Cloud, rain and bit of sleet earlier, with the sky clearing after midnight but too much wind for astrophotography and old men.

Night all, from the old man by the sea.

Two clear nights with no Moon in a row! What's going on?

Back to normality - horizon to horizon cloud cover! - so murky. I'm struggling to see my neighbour's security lighting.

It is literally 'end of days' or should that be nights? Even the robotic scopes on the top of Mount Teide have been wreathed in cloud!😶‍🌫️

Just downloaded V17 James Ritson's excellent macros for Affinity Photo 2. Just tried out the solar coloriser and up to usual standard👍

In the absence of a clear sky to  photograph  for the 'Sky and Landscape' competition I made one up for a laugh.

The sky has ben briefly clear for a change so captured some data. A spectrum from the carbon star La Superba and some video clips of the Full Moon. The Lunar data gave me the opportunity to try James Ritson's latest lunar disc macro for AFFP02 which was in his last update. Excellent for high definition, even when using my mini rig and 66mm Altair Lightwave scope. Have put image of Full Moon in my Moon Album. Still working on processing the spectrum.🧐

Had a brainwave as to how I could make a conversion gizmo to attach to my homemade spectrometer to enable it's use for nebulae. The aluminium bits arrived from EBAY this afternoon. I feel an astro project coming on!

Finally got the LVST (Lowestoft Very Small Telescope) reprogrammed and catching 'meteor pings' again. Everything went west after the electrical supply to the shed went down in the last major storm deluge. All is up and running again. It really does pay to write down what you have done and programmed when you get old. I'm 74 years old you know!!👴