W/C 30th July

[swamp thing]

Hi All

This week the moon will be a bit Intrusive to make much observing worthwhile from RC. I'm a bit busy at the moment as well so I'm going to give this week a miss.

Hopefully we'll get some clear nights next week.

[nytecam]

Hi Steve - I know this column is mostly about organising ob meetings but I'm interested in what anyone saw with what but can't find any forum reports - help!

[swamp thing]

Hi

I did write a report of our last Bignor meet. TBH I think I missed a few objects off but it will give you a rough idea of conditions that night.

We were kinda nebula spotting as Darren had a new O-III filter and we were obviously checking that out.

http://stargazerslou...summer-nebulae/

There was just the two of us at this meet.

HTH

[Woking]

I could easily make out the gas surrounding the dumbell nebula which was well defined itself, both big ticks for the location and ED120.

The Veil was still ridiculously spectacular. We could'nt decide between the Lumicon and Astronomik Oiii filters, but did decide that my new SW Aero 40mm was nothing compared to Steve's 31mm Nagler (that's why the Aero is £400 cheaper ).

Oh and the Moonlite passed it's first light test with flying colours!

Bignor is worth the extra drive, better skies and no passing car headlights. For me it's 25mins to RC and just under an hour to Bignor. Really nice part of the country too.

[nytecam]

Thanks Steve and Darren for report - glad last Bignor went well ! I've only visited site a long time ago for the nearby Roman ruins

[Woking]

The Roman Villa does look worth a daytime visit. Had a look over the fence from the road and it looked like they were recreating the vine rows.

[jam1e1]

Darren have got an oiii too now also astronomic had play from back garden was good view just need to test on dark sky, also got a 24mm uwa to replace the swa it's massive!

[swamp thing]

Those UWA are enormous aren't they

Look forward to having a butchers through that.

[Woking]

those Oiii's are definetley worth the purchase are'nt they.

looking forward to seeing the UWA too

[jam1e1]

Grenade to say the least ! Going to wear steel toecaps just in case I drop it ! Also considering going green for a 13mm nag...

[swamp thing]

Blimey! Have you won the lottery or something?

The 13mm type 6 nagler is a great eyepiece. For such a small eyepiece it packs one hell of a punch.

[jam1e1]

I wish, £20 on last week euromil got me 0. Been selling a few gadgets had lying around the house, plus going to sell old Ep hence effective trade in. Only going for one green Ep and 13m is one I'd get most benefit from (I hope) will be last upgrade for a while!

[ID1 john Ei3]

Hello to all members In case anyone is interested I am based on the outskirts of Redhill & not so far from one of the existing members on here who is, I believe already WELL KNOWN to all or most of you as in speaking to him he has mentioned about the dark sky gatherings you arrange on here & he advised me that some of you might be interested in our new club that I am trying to form it is a ASTRO CLUB/SOC in my sector of Surrey based in Redhill & I would like to hear from anyone who is interested in helping to form or be a member of it.

I will hope to hear from someone\YOU! soon.

Clear skies to everyone

John.