Show us your set up in action at night.

[scarp15]

Transparency is very good and there's a very gentle breeze. M15 is nicely positioned due south for observing presently.  

[david_taurus83]

I cant get a decent picture of it outside but this arrived today.

 

Its nice to be shooting mono narrowband again 🙂

[Stu]

Wonderful views of Mars tonight through the Vixen FL102S.

[Deadlake]

Finally managed to use the mount for the first time. A bit dark but looking at Mars.

 

[markse68]

waiting for clouds to clear- seeings good for Mars tonight

 

[CCD-Freak]

Out in the "boot heel" of New Mexico doing some imaging this week.  Here is the Sharpstar 150mm F2.8 Hyper Newt riding on an AP900GTO mount under the Bortle-1 DARK sky doing it's thing.

"Life is good" !!!

John Love
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

[Sunshine]

Beautiful image, stop teasing us with your bortle 1 sky, thats just cruel. 😥

[CCD-Freak]

1 hour ago, Sunshine said:

Beautiful image, stop teasing us with your bortle 1 sky, thats just cruel. 😥

I had to drive 850 miles to get to it but it has been worth the trip.  I can only get out here a couple times a year.  I torture myself the rest of the year as I suffer with light pollution and crappy weather so I feel your pain. 🤪   Getting to sky like this is always a treat.  I have become a "Dark sky junkie".

 

John
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

[Sunshine]

3 hours ago, CCD-Freak said:

I had to drive 850 miles to get to it but it has been worth the trip.  I can only get out here a couple times a year.  I torture myself the rest of the year as I suffer with light pollution and crappy weather so I feel your pain. 🤪   Getting to sky like this is always a treat.  I have become a "Dark sky junkie".

 

John
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

850 miles!! omg that's one heck of a drive, you deserve every minute of those skies.

[sputniksteve]

20 hours ago, CCD-Freak said:

Out in the "boot heel" of New Mexico doing some imaging this week.  Here is the Sharpstar 150mm F2.8 Hyper Newt riding on an AP900GTO mount under the Bortle-1 DARK sky doing it's thing.

"Life is good" !!!

John Love
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

Actually breathtaking. 
 

I imagine Doctor Who’s face emerging. 

[scarp15]

Another early morning perspective observing Mars. Interacting between 7mm and 5mm DeLite with a OO UK VX8L.

 

[Barry-W-Fenner]

On 15/10/2020 at 23:21, CCD-Freak said:

Out in the "boot heel" of New Mexico doing some imaging this week.  Here is the Sharpstar 150mm F2.8 Hyper Newt riding on an AP900GTO mount under the Bortle-1 DARK sky doing it's thing.

"Life is good" !!!

John Love
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

That looks an amazing place to set up camp and enjoy the sky John. How long are you out there for?

I bet the sense of freedom and the views are unreal.

850 miles is some commitment, that's greater than the length of the UK I believe! 😂

Edited October 21, 2020 by Barry-W-Fenner

[CCD-Freak]

We stayed for a week and had 6 good nights.   I captured over 20 gigs of mage data so I will be busy for a while processing all that.  I will post more images as I work through the pile.

We plan to go again around May for another week.   Having a caravan makes it very comfortable.  I call mine the "Moonlight Manor"

John Love
CCD-Freak
WD5IKX

[Nigella Bryant]

A different perspective in the day time

Edited October 22, 2020 by Nigella Bryant
Pic added

[Barry-W-Fenner]

A crystal clear sky here with the moon and Jupiter directly above it! I'm jumping for joy, just hope the seeing is good now!

Edited October 22, 2020 by Barry-W-Fenner

[Barry-W-Fenner]

Stunning!

[garryblueboy]

Nice and clear here first light and not disappointed especially when I dropped in the Binoviewer with a pair of 24mm Panoptics 

[Ally8446]

On 02/10/2020 at 09:47, merlin100 said:

At Portencross last night, just waiting for the telescope to cool down. 

Portencross, not far from West Kilbride ? 

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, Ally8446 said:

Portencross, not far from West Kilbride ? 

The very same.😉

[Ally8446]

9 hours ago, merlin100 said:

The very same.😉

Back in the late 80s my dad lived in WK. We used to take our kayaks down to Portencross and paddle over to Millport. It's a place I've often thought, I wonder what it's like for LP with astronomy in mind. Do you live nearby ? 

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Ally8446 said:

Back in the late 80s my dad lived in WK. We used to take our kayaks down to Portencross and paddle over to Millport. It's a place I've often thought, I wonder what it's like for LP with astronomy in mind. Do you live nearby ? 

It's one of the least light polluted areas in North Ayrshire, in my opinion.  You do get boy racers meeting at the public car park down there, which is rather annoying. I live about 10 miles away or so.

[scarp15]

Out with 'the big un', VX14, complete with aperture mask, pointed at Mars for a brief session much later on.

 

[JeremyS]

Second clear night in a row. CCD photometry in the dome and the Tak TSA 120 out for Mars

[JeremyS]

Unfortunately the Mars run was aborted as the seeing was terrible. Worst in ages. Good transparency for the CCD photometry, though 

[Les Ewan]

7 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Unfortunately the Mars run was aborted as the seeing was terrible. Worst in ages. Good transparency for the CCD photometry, though 

Seeing for Mars was pretty awful here as well,started off OK in the early evening,but it clouded over and when it cleared a couple of hours later the disc was sheared by  horrible simmering horizontal streaks🤬.