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Get your gear out tonight.Uk looks clear.!!!

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DaveS

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I've got just as bad seeing as last night, to the point that only three stars in the bowl of The Big Dipper are clearly visible. Still going after the Leo Triplet though.

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DaveS

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I'm on school holiday so don't have to be up at any particular hour (Normally 6.20) but the sky is so dispiritingly gack that I don't know if I'll bother after this imaging run. I was going to have another shot at M81/82 but I really don't know.

It does seem churlish to pass up a clear night after all the cloud we've had lately bur It really is quite bad and I can see orange even at the zenith which is unusual.

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Paul M

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Having just taken the bins out I just noticed a gap in the surrounding urban sprawl between next doors garage and the neighbours over the back. Its not a big gap but gives me a narrow view of the NW horizon. Hmm...I wondered. Would that be a viewing opportunity for Panstarrs?

And it was! After initially thinking that the skyglow was just too bad I recognised the field stars as the one containing Panstarrs a couple of nights ago and worked up from there.

It was obvious once found but by no means easy. I even spotted M41 again. Good going given it's elevation over a murky northerly horizon!

I'm really shocked by the increase in light pollution in town now. It really makes me appreciate my dark site up in Cumbria where we have the caravan.

Sadly by the time I back there in May the sky will be way to light for stargazing. It just never gets properly dark a month either side of the solstice.

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DaveS

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After three or four fruitless attempts to find M81 / 82 I've knocked it on the head. The visibility isn't getting any better, so I'd be just wasting my time.

Got to put the rrubbish out for the morning anyway.

clear skies!

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kirkster501

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Yes was a great night. I packed up and got all kit in by 00:45. Was up at 05:30 and drove 150 miles for a 09:00 meeting near Heathrow - where I am now... To say I am a bit tired is rather an understatement! Well, got to make most of clear skies in Blighty....

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Brent

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Last two nights not possible for me due to a long day yesterday, but tonight's another matter!

Looking at the forecast I'll be set up for 7 and out til about 6am :shocked: March 2012 was the last time that happened!

Now I just need to have a look at Stellarium and decide what to image, but I think it will be the triplet. Time to get the batteries on charge.

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astro mick

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Finally got out on the Yorkshire East Coast.Patchy cloud till about Midnight,then cleared.

My first glimpse of the comet.Typical comet shape,but only visible in Binoculars.Was it ever naked eye?

Pleased though.

Mick.

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DaveS

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According to BBC weather (Yeah, right!) the next "clear" spell here is likely to be Friday. Hum...I have a movie club meet to go to (I've missed two in a row) so may not be back till 10 o/c. Will decide on the day whether to set up before I go.

I'm unlikely to be imaging, more likely I'll be sorting out CdC / EQMOD and my HEQ5 see if I can stop them playing silly wotsits.

In the meantime I've some derisory looking subs to look at.

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JB80

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I was impressed, the first really two clear nights of the year here but they were very windy so I just spent a short while out with the bins.

Highlight of the night wasn't astro related though, a Pine Marten bounded across our lawn and scared me until I worked out what it was. I had never seen one in the wild before and certainly didn't expect to see one in suburban Belgium.

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skir

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I have got out the last two nights. Seeing was pretty poor on both but I'm happy to have had clear skies for the first time in 3 weeks or so. I've seen Jupiter, Pleiades, Hyades, Orion nebula with my UHc filter for the first time which really made quite a difference to its visibility, bodes nebula m81 and m82. Last night I saw m36, 37 and 38 in Auriga. 36 and 37 in particular were spectacular. The cat eye nebula which was a wow moment when I realised I had it. M3 which was just amazing. I looked at it for ages eventually dragging myself off it to look at something else.

I also think I saw m66 but am unsure, it looked like a very tenuous nebulosity and there was another area of nebulosity close by to it. But they were both nearly not visible as the lp here is pretty bad. Does this sound like m66 in an 8" with bad lp?

I also had a couple of bright silver objects flash through the fov whilst looking at the clusters in Auriga could these have been satellites?

The second one went through even faster than the first and they were much too quick for planes plus the light wasn't coloured as you get on planes.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

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