Clear Night

[Martin 2]

Wow, its stunning tonight, you can almost touch the Milkyway.

I,m sitting in the warm room listening to the guiding chirping away, I,m trying for NGC5907, dews a pain so the hairdryer is handy but its a privilege to be out tonight under this sky.

Martin

[Talitha]

I love it when that happens.. enjoy!!!

[Tim]

yep, that was my sentiments exactly.

Shame it didnt get dark till after 12 and my frames started to show lightening around 2.45am.

I just wished I had MORE stuff, was like a kid in a sweet shop last night....so MANY targets, so LITTLE time!! Hope they dont go away anytime soon!.

TJ

[Ant]

I totally agree, I enjoyed last night - first time for seeing the milk way this year. Although my eye didn't really get dark adapted anough to do it justice.

I managed 40 x 4min subs on M27, I had to bin one this morning due to bad tracking - strange how every other frame was near perfect - maybe a rougue cloud came over and I didn't notice.

Three of the frames had satilite tracks through them, but I'll include them in the stack and see what happens.

But all in all I was chuffed with last night and getting nearly 3 hours of data. I'm damn tired today though.

Ant

[SteveL]

Promised a clear night here, but it clouded over as it got dark, with the occasional clear patch between the puffy clouds. I waited and waited until it started geting light, then packed up, frustrated, annoyed, desperate, etc etc etc

[Martin 2]

Well, got 20 180sec subs and just had a go at them and thet are rubbish, so noisey its untrue, must get a dew strip, I think what looks like noise is dew forming on the scope, with this star 2000 guiding you have to guide x 2 for each sub ie. a 180 sec sub takes 360 secs to shoot and it was so bad last night I think that by the end of each sub the dew had started to form again, still it was just nice to be out last night. NOW wheres my wallet.

Martin

[Whippy]

Promised a clear night here, but it clouded over as it got dark, with the occasional clear patch between the puffy clouds. I waited and waited until it started geting light, then packed up, frustrated, annoyed, desperate, etc etc etc

Indeed. Luckily I had already decided that last night was going to be a visual night . I had only planned for an hour, ended up being over two because due to cloud dodging...

Tony..

[iancandler]

It was clear here but the seeing on jupiter wasnt that good, you could still see detail but its so low that the heat from rooftops was affecting things badly.

[Sam]

mmmmmm, I knew I should have stayed up!!!!