Clear blue.

[BUSMANMARK]

Got a clear blue sky here in Dorset today.hope it lasts in to the night seems like an age since the scope was out.

[Jiggy 67]

Yeh, clear here to, forcast to stay clear till midnight, so I'm out tonight

[SnakeyJ]

Clear over here to - scope already out

[Planetesimal]

Fingers crossed in Glos... It's (relatively) clear at the moment and I'm hoping to get first light with the TAL 100RS this evening!

[Mike73]

Looking good in Cornwall.

Just about to load the car up and get to my dark site!

[Jiggy 67]

Well I had a go....Had a few problems with alignement, sorted it, though, for some reason, my GoTo wasn't anything like as accurate as it has been, got no explanation for it, but I perservered for an hour then the clouds rolled if....100% cover!!!! couldn't believe it, so 20 minutes ago I packed up

[SnakeyJ]

That was a nice treat! I had clear sky til just gone midnight and nice and dark too. Seeing was a little turbulent at times, but Id say 8/10....

[Planetesimal]

First light with the frac! I was out till 1am, but transparency wasn't great for me even from the start (about 10.30), and by midnight it was really getting hazy up there. At the start I could see the stars in ursa minor easily but by the end only stars better than magnitude 3.5 or thereabouts were visible. I did manage to add M65 and M66 of the Leo triplet to my observed list... In total I had a look at 2 nebulas, 4 galaxies and 4 open clusters, plus Jupiter - I missed the Io transit though...

Most of my time was spent working out how to use a refractor - it really is a completely different animal from a newt!