Best night this year !

[cotterless45]

Having a string of milky nights , last night was dark. It's not often that all the stars pick out Orion's Belt. Even Cassiopeia changed shape into a kite with a tail , later on. There were hardly any lights on around the place, a joy to be out.

Frost locked up the moisture , but the seeing was quite bad with stars wobbling at x200. A view of Vesta in Cancer, then over to "The Spirograph " in Lepus, just so non stellar. The Auriga and Gemini clusters gave lovely views. Even looked north west to Cassiopeia.

Cloud piled in from the north, just leaving Cancer and Monoceros available. What superb darkness, hope it bodes (!) well for this year, hurrah !

old Nick.

[DRT]

Glad to here you had some luck, Nick.

I got some nice wide field viewing through my TV60 but the sky was just too wet and wobbly to crank up any magnification through the VX12 Dob. Nice to be out though and it is looking like it will be a clear day and noght here so might try to grab a bit of solar action if the Sun makes it above the neighbours' rooftops this afternoon

 

[Size9Hex]

Hopefully the first of many great nights this year. Last night was the tail end of several days of fog and general murk down this way. Tonight is looking like an absolute belter though! 

[mdstuart]

It was really clear in Bristol. The humidity dipped below 90% in the arctic air.

Transparency was VERY good.

Mark

I got the 16 inch out rather than your old 130mm Heritage dob Nick

 

 

[Pete Presland]

Sounds like an excellent night. Hopefully the conditions stick around for a while, might have to give Mars a go tomorrow before I go to back work  At least a decent session on Jupiter will give me something to take my mind off the return to work

[FenlandPaul]

Long may it continue, Nick!  Looks like tonight might be a good bet; temp nice and low and humidity set to be sub 90% for the first half of the night.  Will look forward to trying out my new UHC filter!

Paul

[alan potts]

Nice one Nick, it was so clear here I thought i could see parts of Barnards Loop, then I put the whishy bottle down. The cold was enough to put me off, minus 14, but the snow was just too deep to bother with a scope.

Alan