Quicky last night

[Jim Steele]

So I had my first night observing since August last night!! I had to make the most of the clear skies.

First target was the Andromeda galaxy, was quite challenging in my humble 4" frac, I was on my knees trying to align my finder, which was way off. In the end, I ended up sighting the tube by eye and scanning the area, until it popped out at me as a grey fuzzy blob. M45 was next and looked fab with the stock 20mm plossl, like a string of pearls glistening. I'm sure they would have benefited from more fov.

By now Orion was just above my neighbours house, caught sight of M42 and it looked amazing

So, a quick 45 min session was over, it was a work night so packed the by now very wet with dew scope away needless to say it was a good night with a few easy targets..

Ben