South Wales Star Party October 2015

[tich]

Well I had a walk down there & no lights were on at all, the sign has gone from the front although the tables are laid which seemed odd. Looks like you could be Billy no mates Mick ;-)

[bats]

I think it only opens at weekends Tich....see you Friday

[tich]

Had another good session last night although I still need to work on the CCD, a whole new learning curve for me at the moment but I did have it firing off some subs at M76 so I'll have a look through those later. I swapped it out for the DSLR & had a go at the Crab Nebula for the remainder of the session until the clouds came in at just after 3:00AM so at least I had an early night lol. Feelind tired again this morning so plenty of tea , coffee & fried breakfast needed to wake mne up lol.

Just a quick dirty process of a single sub of M1, I'm hoping with the rest of them stacked it's going to turn out better so we'll see.



There's a tent pitched where David was last year & he's brought a scope, he's a bit new to it all so I tried to help him out as best I could, I did pop back to the caravan for about half an hour then go back but he'd gone to bed as I heard the snoring.
Should sound good later at night when Tony arrives & is settled then.

 

[stevetynant]

Well your getting off to a great start Tich - when I get up at 6am the last two mornings the skies have been stunning - hope things remain the same - keep the reports and photos coming :0)

[tich]

You know me Steve I'm always posting updates Tony has arrived & we've had the inflating ceremony although seems kinda weird without Mr F with us this year.

Funny thing is I just had this memory thing pop up on Facebook from 2012 aka SW1

[lennylovit]

not another one snoring OH NOOOOOO , Tony is bad enough

[Freff]

Someone has to make you feel safe Lenny.

[tich]

Nice to see Mike Dorothy & Dai today, thanks Dai for the loan of the event shelter.






 

[iLMio Stef]

I take it you guys will still be there on Saturday? How is the weather looking?

[daiwelly]

I take it you guys will still be there on Saturday? How is the weather looking?

Yes we will still be here weather should hold out

[tich]

Yesterday I did a spot of solar observing & was seeing a nice prom through the little Lunt, although it did look kinda lost mounted on top of the 10" Newt!! Views I were getting was nice though although I tried grabbing an image & it just weren't going to happen.



Last night was pretty cloudy so I set up the projector & finally watched Gravity on the side of the Burger van as it's perfect to use as a big screen Mind you the less I said about that film the better eh? Afterwards the skies cleared & were a bit hit & miss but we were getting nice views with the MK1 eyeball then Kev decided to set up hid Dob & have a scan around. I went back to the van then Kev came over & said it had cleared so set up my scope only to find it starting to cloud out again. Still we managed an an hour & a half or so last night.




 

[lennylovit]

loading up the car , see you later

Lenny

[tich]

Whey hey!!! See you soon Lenny

[lennylovit]

phone you to get a brew on

[garethmob]

I'm just finishing loading up too ginna go for some food and I be leaving any one know where the closest supermarket is as I forgot to go shopping last night lol got distracted with the GoPro and a time lapse

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[Freff]

Great to hear you are coming Gareth. The nearest supermarket here is in Brecon and is easy to get to. See you soon.

[garethmob]

Which number have I got this time tony as I can't actually remember which one I was on last year.

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[Freff]

_{Pitch 6 hard standing next to Tich. Come straight to your pitch I have sorted it with Owners.}

[estwing]

See you tmz boys n girls

[tich]

Place is filling up now See you all tomorrow!!

[AstroJOE]

Returned from my hols with a streaming cold so gonna get an early night in the hope I can shake it off before tomorrow. Assuming I'm feeeling better I'll be down mid afternoon. Pitch 9 I think again.

Anyone got a spare battery to fit a Canon 600d with them by any chance? I dropped my camera in the sea when I was away and it's not working but before I go ahead and replace the whole camera I just want to check it's not just the battery which is a gonna..... The battery won't charge when I've tried it so impossible to tell if the camera has had it too (although I suspect t it has).

Also, anyone know if the rugby is on in the local on Saturday afternoon?

James

[bats]

See you all tomorrow pitch 5 for me

[faulksy]

see you all tomorrow boys and girls

[tich]

Well I couldn't sleep so did a reprocess on the Crab Nebula that I took the other night, quite happy with the result especially after rather a lot of cider tonight



 

[daiwelly]

Just some snaps from Pencelli

It was a shame about the cloud cover that plagued the star party