Clear sky

[mdstuart]

Getting excited..first clear sky without a moon for ages...surely I am not the only one?

Dob out tonight...ngc3*** galaxies list ready!

Mark

[estwing]

happy hunting...

[DRT]

The 16" Dob is coming out tonight along with my new Altair Starwave 152 F5.9 to use as a finder scope

[xtreemchaos]

sh,sh,the clouds will hear,there spitefull like that.  good here too.charl.

[swamp thing]

Cloudy here  

[DaveS]

Clearing here. CO is forecasting clear all night.

[Knighty2112]

Clear blue skies where I am too, so fingers crossed very quietly!  

[Astro Imp]

Was 100% cloud earlier but its gradually cleared during the day and now 90% clear blue. I shall be out as soon as dinner is over.

Good luck to the rest of you, have fun.

[ejp1684]

Yes, clouds beginning to depart. Hoping for four hours or so of dark skies sans moon.

Eric.

[Daniel-K]

Clear here and I'm in work 

[Mr Spock]

Pseudo clear - there's a very thin haze high up

[laudropb]

Nice clear blue skies here. But will they last?

[Mark at Beaufort]

Still mostly cloudy here although I have set up the 12" Dob for its first major outing without the Moon. I have a few small reflection nebs I want to find plus part of Barnards Loop (SH2 - 276) with a H.Beta filter.

[John]

I've put my 12" dob out as well. I've no particular targets in mind as yet but I'll see how the mood takes me

[faulksy]

putting my dob out in a bit, skys look amazing, very stable and its only early, yipeeeeee

[Uranium235]

On the case here.... looks alright at the mo so Im having quick smash & grab on the jellyfish.

[Twiggles]

Got the Skywatcher 130 reflector out and celestron 127 mak. Hoping to get some jupiter imaging done and a bit of visual hunting.

[DaveS]

Closed down and bought the kit in.

Cloud coming over making PHD2 go bonkers, and now it looks like it'll cloud over fully. TBH even if it clears again I can't be bothered fighting a guide camera that disconnects at the slightest provocation.

Seriously thinking of giving Rupert at Astrograph a bell tomorrow regarding an ASA DDM60.

[Davey-T]

Same here Dave, weather and mount, been looking at 10Micron GM1000 HPS as I want something fairly light for travelling.

Thought you'd binned the QHY

Dave

[steppenwolf]

The skies were pristine in West Sussex until about 20:00 and then white-out! Been here before a time or two .........

[DaveS]

20 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Same here Dave, weather and mount, been looking at 10Micron GM1000 HPS as I want something fairly light for travelling.

Thought you'd binned the QHY

Dave

Ha ha, nearly but not quite. I does work provided you don't look at it the wrong way, else ........

[John]

Still nice and clear here. I'm working along Lynx picking up the NGC galaxies

(looks nothing like a member of the cat family to me !)

[kerrylewis]

You're lucky John. All set up here, dinner done, 100% clear forecast - 95% cloud ever since. hey ho! 

[DRT]

I've had a good clear sky here and no sign of any clouds yet. Clear Outside is predicting a little cloud at midnight and then clear until dawn. Pity it's a school night

Managed to find the Leo Triplet for the first time using the ED120. Only spotted two of the three and they were very faint but that part of the sky is moving around into the sight line of my Dob so will give it another go later.

Jupiter is stunning tonight. GRS is bang in the centre of the disk right now and very clear. I've even given my TV Planetary filter a good go for the first time since I bought it and I must say that when you get used to the brownish colour it actually provides very good contrast between the bands of cloud.

Will head back down the garden when my feet thaw out!

[Saganite]

Had the scopes out and cooling early but the cloud coverage gradually increased and was total by 9.40 pm.