Show us your set up in action at night.

[melsmore]

Some lunacy for me and the APM140 too

[Mr Spock]

From yesterday. Just looking at the moon with the 4", with the 12" waiting patiently for later.

[Vroobel]

1 hour ago, Mr Spock said:

From yesterday. Just looking at the moon with the 4", with the 12" waiting patiently for later.

 

It's also black and shiny.

 

[josefk]

Dewey dusk till dewey dawn was a whopping four hours (just barely) and damp throughout. Astro is a smash and grab activity these days 😞. 

Sticking at it was rewarded with a finish on Saturn at about 04:30. The narrow rings look great.
 

airing off now before packing up. I was hoping for a bit of white light Solar before calling it a night for the “full house” in one session but rising cloud is currently beating the sun to the tree line. 

Looking west:

looking east:

with a dawn chorus soundtrack:

Edited June 2 by josefk

[Vroobel]

Waiting for the clouds to go away. 

 

 

 

Edited June 8 by Vroobel

[TiffsAndAstro]

37 minutes ago, Vroobel said:

Waiting for the clouds to go away. 

 

 

 

same here. was looking great until 1030 now it looks bad

[Mr Spock]

Nice and clear. Just about to go out now everything is ready.

[Mr Spock]

The keen eyed will notice the RDF is back to front...  Now fixed.

[Ags]

Been there, done that! I guess it can be expected if you insist on mucking about at 2am in the dark  

Edited June 8 by Ags

[bosun21]

Out getting first light tonight and thankfully the clouds stayed away. The Jetstream was directly above my part of the UK which played havoc with trying to check the optics properly. 

 

 

Edited June 9 by bosun21

[josefk]

Just posting this while finishing up on Saturn again after a long run of doubles overnight. I think I may have made some progress on the (otherwise stalled) AL programme and enjoyed some dainty pairs in Lyra towards the end too.  3 clear nights in 8-days. Have we turned a corner just in time to enjoy the 7 whole minutes of dark we get at about 1am?

 

Edited June 9 by josefk

[Paz]

I've been experimenting getting a good easy set up based on a porta 2 and a 72mm f6 refractor. I can take it straight out at  a moments notice with no set up required other than to lift it out of the house and take the caps off.

 

[Sunshine]

One advantage of lunar observing is streetlights don’t really matter, and as I store my dob inside the garage it makes for quick setup.

[bosun21]

Out with the 120ED tonight as the skies are supposed to be clear tonight from midnight onwards. I will occupy myself with the moon while waiting for it to get dark (sort of). Had to readjust the counterweight between photos. I get a better balance with both weights.

 

 

 

 

 

[inedible_hulk]

Some evening lunar observing with the ST80 😊

[Swoop1]

Grabbing a bit of data on M13 after a few captures of the moon.

[bosun21]

Got a scope out cooling in anticipation of it remaining clear tonight. Going to go after some carbon stars and a few doubles hopefully.

 

[Vroobel]

Is there any chance for an unexpectedly clear sky in NW? The only thing I can do is to collect RGB stars. The good news is that nights will be longer starting tomorrow. 🙂👆

Edit. Indeed, the weather surprised me, 3x60x30s RGB stars were collected.

 

 

Edited June 21 by Vroobel

[bosun21]

Out again with another scope out cooling. This time it's my 10" dobsonian as I am thinking of trying to catch an image of Saturn in the early morning. It's really low in the sky at the moment but with the ADC it may be doable.

 

[josefk]

Just enjoying a coffee and a bit of dawn bird spotting after a “near enough” midsummer all nighter. It was never really dark but it was warm and dry so very very pleasant.

I hope for an hour of white light Solar in a little while before fully packing up.

 
 

[bosun21]

Third night out this week! Why doesn't this happen when the skies are nice and dark? Back to the 120ED refractor last night and some doubles with a little lunar thrown in, the moon was scraping the horizon when I viewed it. I also observed the Garnet Star (mu cephei) with it's bright red luminance. I need to dedicate a night soon to only Carbon stars. I'm nodding off through the day now due to the three nights observing. It's supposedly clear tonight as well! Oh no!! 

 

 

[Emperor!Takahashi!]

😎

[WolfieGlos]

All ready to go, when some pesky clouds rolled in…!

Although I quite like the noctilucent variety 🙂

[AstroNebulee]

Not the best image of my set up as it's a handheld smartphone shot and not steady enough. 

My star adventurer 2i on William Optics wedge and Manfrotto 190go. Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. 

Testing exposure times on the milky-way, summer triangle and Andromeda regions. 

Clear skies 

Lee 

Edited June 29 by AstroNebulee

[Norris Adams]

On 28/07/2016 at 17:45, DaveS said:

Not the whole set up, but my game-pad covered in frost in Dec '14. Combination of flash and the red desk lamp.

 

Just found another photo from the previous October

 

A true artist needs to suffer for his art.

Norris