Long weekend away at Kielder - ideas?

[ma6asrb]

Hi All,

I'm still pretty new to astronomy, not had much time to get out and use my equipment over the last year, much to my shame!  So, to put things right I've booked a long weekend away between April 17th - April 20th 2014 to the Kielder Forest Park.  Really looking foreard to it (just hoping the whether is kind to me!).

I'll be taking my SLR and laptop, along with my skywatcher 150px to try and get some good pics.

However I don't want to spend hours searching around for things to view / photo, but would like to come away with some good looking pics!  Can anyone suggest some relatively easy to find targets that would give me a pretty good results?

Thanks,

Andrew

[Davey-T]

Don't know about targets but take your wellies

Dave

[ronin]

What is the px ?

I get 150P, PL and PRO.

Do you have it motor driven ?

Good waterproofs as well as the wellies.

[Cjg]

Hi Andrew,

Good luck at Kielder, there's a good list of easier targets at http://astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk/mwm/ think that the brighter / larger ones will make easier targets to get you going.

Recommend that you download http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/ (it's free) you could then program in the location and date / time to have a look at what you could see.

Here's the event calender for Kielder Observatory too - worth a visit http://kielderobservatory.org/events/calendar.html

Best,

Chris

[ma6asrb]

Thanks all, will look at those links. Sorry for the typo, meant 150pl. It is motor driven.

Hoping that by April it won't be as soggy, but with the weather these days who knows.

[swamp thing]

The moon will be your best bet. It's gonna be pretty bright on those dates. The 15th is a full moon.