WADAS (Wakefield and District Astronomical Society)

[Sagittarius A]

Also, what's the deal with Sunday?

[stonemonkeylives]

A few folks went yo Winscarr for a last minute observing session. I unfortunately was not among them as I was at work there was a post on both here and our Facebook page. So make sure you like our page and follow us on twitter

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[nicks90]

Sunday we are up at parker road for the national astronomy week event centering on Jupiter. Meeting up at 7pm

[Astronomer69]

It's showing a clear forcast for winscarr tonight if anyone interested.

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[mapstar]

Yeah winscarr again tonight for us

[Astronomer69]

Winscarr again tonight for anyone intrested!!!!!!!

Here's a quick image of M104 from Tuesday night from winscarr   http://www.flickr.com/photos/astronomer69/12818188564/

[stonemonkeylives]

Argh....I'm blumming working again tonight. Might take my binos with me and have a look on my lunch.

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[stonemonkeylives]

I've posted a notice about the meet at Winscar tonight on our Facebook page. So if you could post times on jere that would be wunderbar

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[stonemonkeylives]

*on here.

Stupid chubby thumbs >.<

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[Sammyb]

I can't make it tonight. Enjoy yourselves.

[mapstar]

Just got in after a great few hours up there with Kieran.

My observing list was a long one and the galaxies were brilliant to spot tonight

Hopefully Kieran caught some of the Aurora tonight

Thumbs up and clear skies

[Astronomer69]

Defo got some Aurora Damian will need to go over the images later to see quite how good it was.

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[mapstar]

Looking forward to seeing those Kieran.

[hazegood]

Am still having trouble getting my scope working, any of you guys got an hour or 2 tio spare tomorrow who wouldn't have a mind having a look at it, will happily come to you, I know its short notice but am getting so frustrated.

Cheers

Leigh

 

[mapstar]

What exactly is wrong leigh?

My list of targets from last night

M46, 47, 50, 53, 64, 77, 88, 91, 93

NGC2362, 2423, 4448, 4494, 4559, 4565, 4571, 4639, 4654, 4689, 4710, 4725, 4866

22 targets in all and mostly galaxies

[hazegood]

still collimation issues I think,

[mapstar]

still collimation issues I think,

Why do you think it's collimation are the stars not quite pin point and are you doing photography with it or just visual?

[hazegood]

Why do you think it's collimation are the stars not quite pin point and are you doing photography with it or just visual?

Visual, and yes cant get stars pinpoint, or planets for that matter,  also this scope has always had issues ever since I bought it

[nicks90]

Can you come along to the meeting at parker road tomorrow night? If so, I'll take a look at it with my laser collimator.

[hazegood]

that's a possibility, wheres parker road and what kind of time?

[Soupy]

Now then people, sorry not been on much this week, as I have said before wife has been away in California but has now safely returned so I can resume my nightly forays into the cosmos.

Looking forward to tomorrow night, hoping the cloud stays away, we should have quite a few junior members coming down and asking if they can have a look at some DSOs if you don't mind, some may also request some photographs but I will sort these ones out as I have completed my powertank and have a car charger for my laptop so it should keep going long enough to do all night if needs be but certainly take a few photographs anyway ;-)

We will be at Parker road just at the bottom of California drive, off Northfield road which is the main road from wakefield to Huddersfield, but if you get to Middletown you have gone way too far!

[Soupy]

Hope you all got to see the Aurora the other night, I managed to shoot it from the back garden! Have a look :-)

[Sammyb]

Excellent photo Paul. I didn't see it.

[Sagittarius A]

What time is everyone getting there tonight?

Cheers,

James

[nicks90]

I'm going to be heading up there at 6.30 so I can set a few direction signs out for people to find their way from the main road.