Is it clear tonight where you are ?

[Ewan]

Weather forecast & the Astro panel app sais clear skies tonight, wondered what its looking like where you are & if you are scoping tonght :-)

[lukebl]

Clear but blowing a hoolie here in Norfolk.

[Andy_E]

Clear(ish) at the moment... not holding my breath. Looks better for tomorrow.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Clear but strong winds. Luckily my garden is sheltered. Might have a bash if I manage to grade the last exams and practicals.

[nameunknown]

http://chesterweather.org.uk/skyscape-cam/current-skyscape-view.html

Partial Cloud

[Ewan]

Meant to be good transparency / seeing looking really good at the moment but dew will be problematic for me i think, just one perfect night for once would be a godsend.

Hope some of you get out there at least

[boss hogg]

Bit early to tell, windy at the moment, and had a few showers!!

need to get out to try my hand with asdacam hope for a few shots of the moon to play with.(fingers crossed)...

but i need to balance that with getting up at 5 to go to work

[Ewan]

Sorry Boss Hogg but the moon will not be there tonight as i am putting it on Ebay so i can do some DSO work instead, you can have a go next week

On a serious note though i really wish with all the tech we have at the moment why can't weather forecasts be a little more accurate ?

[Gina]

Well... there are patches of blue sky with varying amounts of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus clouds. Now there's some rather unpleasant looking nimbus clouds gathering up wind There might be some clear spells tonight or there might not! It usually clouds over by the time it gets dark

[laser_jock99]

Well... there are patches of blue sky with varying amounts of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus clouds. Now there's some rather unpleasant looking nimbus clouds gathering up wind There might be some clear spells tonight or there might not! It usually clouds over by the time it gets dark

Ditto (Warks).

[Ewan]

Well... there are patches of blue sky with varying amounts of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus clouds. Now there's some rather unpleasant looking nimbus clouds gathering up wind There might be some clear spells tonight or there might not! It usually clouds over by the time it gets dark

Gina Noooooooooooooooooooo i bet you've just jinxed my sky now :-(

I only want to get out to get frustrated with my guiding again lol

[Stu]

Beautifully clear here but no chance to get out unfortunately, need an early night :-(

Stu

[Ewan]

Well well well your spell didn't work Gina :-), crystal clear here & im not going to waste it.

[Paul M]

Just started to rain here.

My crystal ball tells me it going to clear later but I need an early night as I'm back to work at 6.30 in the morning

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[mert]

Supposed to be partly cloudy at 1am and clear by 4am, I'm determined to stay up at all costs.

[lensman57]

Hi,

For a " change" it is cloudy, windy and rainy tonight in Manchester, same forcast for tomorrow, and Saturday night. Brilliant as usual.

Regards,

A.G

[Gina]

Clear here now BUT can I get anything to work NOPE Well that's not quite true, I've got some cracking shots of the moon Do I really want yet more shots of the moon - NO However, I was able to test my remote focussing and that's working fine - high res shots of the moon - I even did RGB

AstroTortilla will solve my current images but won't solve ones from last time, or images from the net (M51). I'm sure you're supposed to be able to get AT to take co-ordinates from CdC but I can't seem to find out how. Astronometry.net is giving errors when it tries to solve my FITS files I just can't seem to find my target tonight. OK so I found the moon - big deal It's big enough and bright enough!

PHD is showing a couple of stars and it calibrated on one of them in 5 steps in each direction but when guiding it won't stay on the star. The graph is all over the place with the RA trace off the bottom. Mind you, the wind is still pretty strong - I wonder if that's the problem. No sign of dew so I took the dew shield off to reduce windage.

Gonna get a cuppa and maybe a piece of toast and try again in a while...

[lensman57]

Hi,

For a " change" it is cloudy, windy and rainy tonight in Manchester, same forcast for tomorrow, and Saturday night. Brilliant as usual.

Regards,

A.G

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Scope cooled down nicely, about to start, and clouds rushed in. Oh, well, at least I get a good night's rest.

[Gina]

One strange thing. I was set for TIFF files in Artemis Capture and now it's changed to FITS and I can't seem to get it to change back. Not that it's much of a problem - I have Fits Liberator to view them with.

[Gina]

Here's a moon sub.

[Ewan]

Guess what !!!!! Guiding is working yippee :-)

As you can tell im a happy bunny, longest sub, so far 3 mins, will go for 5 ,7 then 10 to test.

Got my phd settings now then & saved, for all those who gave me advice for guiding thanks thanks & thanks :-):-):-)

[Ewan]

Nice moon Gina, can you dim it a little im practicing m81 :-)

[Ewan]

Nice round stars , no clouds yet but very cold

[nightvision]

Hey Gina you seem to be having a Gremlin sort of night, I know what that feels like, when nothing makes sense or seems to work properly.

Last night was wild here with trees being blown over and sat dishes being torn apart, tonight it's peaceful and cloudy.