First time out in ages

[Mark1970Vintage]

Managed to get out for a couple of hours tonight. Last time out was June 6th !! weather has been that bad.

Managed to see the Double Cluster for the first time and got a glimpse of the Sagitarius star field (M24?) before it dissappeared behind the house.... along with all of my other Sagitarius targets. M31 which was another objective tonight was behind a blimmin tree. Relooked at a couple of old favourites and got the camera out on M13 for the first time.

M13 Globular Cluster by Mark1970Vintage, on Flickr

[JB80]

Very nice, it was my first night out since a long time too. It was thoroughly therapeutic sitting out there.

Even saw my first hedgehog of the year.

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Ive seen 2 hedgehogs this year, they were both dead in the middle of the road though. On a brighter note..

I saw M13 (I think) for the first time the other night also, first time out in a while, wasnt as bright as i was expecting, but im not sure how its suppose to look lol. Hopefully going to be clear tonight, can have another look at it, and start to work on my Messier list