W/C 18th February

[swamp thing]

Hi All

It's looking pretty good out there at the moment. Anyone fancy giving RC a bash?

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[Leebert]

Can't do tonight sadly as Wifey has the car

Currently taking snaps of Jupiter in the back garden and might go for some widefield shots later.

Hope you have a good night if you go

[jam1e1]

Yeah what time?

[swamp thing]

9:30 ish okay?

[jam1e1]

Yep, make 9 if u can

[swamp thing]

Try my best, do you want me to bring my battery pack, think its charged.

[Astro_Baby]

Typically the firts good night and I have no blumming car

[jam1e1]

Want me to pick u up?

[jam1e1]

Prob will go manual tonight, will see what can fit in car

[Astro_Baby]

No its ok hon, thanks enayway but I have a rocket I started on as I knew ai would have no car and ai really want to crack on with that. Thanks tho...appreciate it.

[jimieee]

Doh! I offered to cover for someone really early tomorrow, so not a good idea for me.

Have fun though guys.

[swamp thing]

Okay I'll leave the battery pack at home, bit tight on space anyway

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[Astro_Baby]

What was the sky like last night ???? .it started looking hazy about 10pm

[jam1e1]

was ok ish- wasn't milky but think hazy was fair description at times. Moon and Jupiter were v clear, M13 wasn't great appeared 'washed out', leo triplet etc were no hope, double cluster was ok, moon washed a lot of stuff out. Not many cars though! compared views of with and without paracorr also. made nice change from back garden, first trip up there in many months!

[swamp thing]

It's pretty easy to check transparency at RC. If you can see leith hill, then it's not too bad. Last night........no

As Jamie said seeing was good, in fact very good Jupiters image was very steady and the moon was as good as I've seen it for a long, long time. Star images were very good too.

The view through Jamie's 10" with Paracorr convinced me I've made the right choice on getting one. Coma, gone nada, zip. Very nice views, much better than my 10" without.

Deep sky was tough last night, not much going really except open clusters. Although M42 was worth a look for the trapezium, as star images were so steady.

Overall, just nice to actually get the scope out.

Now just gotta convince Jamie he needs that big 16" Dob, shouldn't be too hard

[Woking]

The Surrey Observer dob collection seems to be multiplying and increasing in aperture

I should be around later next week if we get any clear skies even with full moon on Monday

[Leebert]

I got to admit that getting the dob has been one of the best things I've done. For our lacklusture skies, it's great to just set up in seconds when there is a slot in the clouds.