W/C 27th January

[swamp thing]

Looks promising.

Going to load the scope up and head on down

[Rustysplit]

Fingers crossed then Steve. What sort of time do you reckon on getting there?

[swamp thing]

Probably 8:30 ish by the time I've found everything.....it's been a while

[Rustysplit]

see you there.

[jam1e1]

Hope it goes well, just about to head out to back garden clouds everywhere. Will join hopefully if free next time

[Rustysplit]

Had a great night despite early cloud threatening to ruin it. All clear by about 10 and stayed that way until we packed up at about 1.

[hobsey]

Glad to hear it wasn't a waste.

I'm going to have to venture down to that spot.

[swamp thing]

Here we are on Bignor hill

Good night with pretty good transparency although there was a bit of water vapour about.

I would say what we observed but some idiot (me) forgot his star atlas.

Off the top of my head

M3, M13,M51+ it's neighbour and the bridge between them,M101, M104,M64,M81,M82 + supernova,M106, M97,M108,M42/3. Pretty much everything in Virgo and the plough with NGC numbers.

The double cluster M57. Quick glimpse at Jupe (seeing not steady though).

Missed the horse head it was too low in the sky and missed M83, again too low.

I think that covers most of it.

[Woking]

Damn, I missed out on a trip to Bignor!

Sounds like you guys a good night, nice shot of the dobs.

[jam1e1]

Glad you had good time, are you both trying to spread aperture fever virus??!!

On a separate note have acquired a skymax 180 to add to armoury will bring up next time meet , assuming can find a suitable travel case

[hobsey]

On a separate note have acquired a skymax 180 to add to armoury

Good job, I would like to have a look through one of them,

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