RC

[hobsey]

Could someone please just confirm time and meeting place? Either on here or via PM.

Many thanks.

[Rustysplit]

About 7.30?, at the car park just off the road as you come up the hill from Dorking way.

[hobsey]

Thats great, thank you very much.

There is a couple interested on here from west sussex direction, so there could be a few of us.

[Rustysplit]

I believe it is called Denbies Hillside car park.

[swamp thing]

Yep! Denbies is the name.

I'll be up a bit later, gotta pick the Dob up from my folks place first.

[zicklurky]

Sweet! Will be nice to get a group going!

I'm going to head to RC tonight as well for a bit of imaging. Just got home from work and it looks fairly clear.

[Rustysplit]

Is that the full size dob Steve?

[Optical Dob]

I should be OK for tomorrow.

[swamp thing]

No sorry! Baby Dob 10"

Gotta get the 10" up n running, it's my grab n go. It's been a bit neglected of late.just got the secondary back in. Want to make sure all is well.

[harryt]

What time do you usually finish as I have some sport to do near Windsor so would potentially pop by around 10.30/11.00pm?  Will have the bins and tripod and would be great to meet some of you.

Harry

[Rustysplit]

Barring clouds rolling in, I will almost certainly still be there.

[zicklurky]

I may be there quite early after picking up the dob, where do you guys normally set up, in the parking lot or on the grass through the gate?

[Leebert]

I should get up there too tonight. It's been way too long!

zicklurky: we normally observe in the car park bit. It can get a bit dewy on the grass.

[Woking]

I'll be there too, fingers crossed it stays clear as will be the first time my scope has been out the box since last winter

[hobsey]

If we are in the car park, I may bring both scopes.

[Rustysplit]

The weather is looking perfect!! See you all later.

[hobsey]

Yep, see you there.

[jam1e1]

Wow sounds like a party, I'll try to get up there too!

[hobsey]

I maybe a little late.

Just had a phone call saying my new lens has been delivered so I need to go and pick that up first.

[hobsey]

Very pleasant evening, it was nice to finally meet some of you.

I really should buy turn left at orion, as I quite clearly have no idea where im looking. Lol

[jam1e1]

Great to meet new people as well as those not seen for a while catch up soon!

[swamp thing]

Yep! Great to see some new faces and some old ones too.

Let's hope this is the start of some unseasonal prolonged clear spell

[Leebert]

It was great to meet new faces and catch up with others too

It was an excellent night for observing with quite few objects in the bag...

Andromeda galaxy;

Triangulum galaxy;

Veil nebula;

crescent nebula;

Ring nebula;

Uranus;

Jupiter;

Kemble's cascade;

Double cluster.

There's probably 1 or 2 more that have slipped my mind too.

If I was in the back garden, I wouldn't thought to look for half of these objects. I also wouldn't have seen some but did thanks to a fellow observers 14" dob and an OIII filter - thanks for that (apologies, I have forgotten your name)  It's what makes meeting up as a group really rewarding. Looking forward to doing it again soon

[Rustysplit]

A cracking night out! Good to meet you all. Let's hope the sky plays ball to allow us a trip to darker skies next week.

[harryt]

Great to meet you all last night and thank you for sharing your views through various scopes.  

And what a view from RC!!!!  My M25-afflicted home has a narrow field of view so the virtual 360 degree view was stunning.

Fingers crossed for more nights like that!

Clear skies

Harry