Feel like I really got started last night.

[RiponJas]

Last night felt like the first time I got to grips with what I'm slowly learning to understand.. 

I maybe using goto functions but it's helping me understand where everything is, probably wouldn't recognise some things otherwise. 

Got quite accurately polar aligned then did a two star alignment which is enough for visual use it seems using Arcturus and Vega, both of which where just about dead central in the EP (miracle). 

Started off easy and followed jupiter for a while before trying to guess a few stars before using the goto. Had a look at a few doubles then tried a few clusters. Started with the double cluster in Perseus, really did look like an explosion in a diamond shop. Lovely.  Then moved onto m13 the Great cluster in hercules, wow. Found that rather impressive. Went through a few ep's on that but found my simple 12.5mm and 6.5mm plossls had it looking rather sharp.  (x96 & x164) 

So to round it off with an opinion, frankly my best viewing session to date. ? 

[Dr_Ju_ju]

And so the journey starts....

[Knighty2112]

Well done Jas. M13 never fails to impress no matter how many times you see it.  Was out last night doing some testing of my Canon camera piggybacked on to my C8 SCT on my AVX GoTo mount. Connected up via WiFi and Skysafari, and ended up viewing comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner-Zinner in Cassiopeia, which I just managed to snap with the Canon, but looked very nice in my 18mm X-Cel EP. 

[Sunshine]

Isn't it just awesome when you have a great session, especially one of your fist at that, i am a little envious, i hope you have many awesome sessions for years to come.

[Paz]

Nice report, there will be many more good times to come.

[teoria_del_big_bang]

Sounds like a good nights viewing there putting all that new equipment to good use 

Steve

[RiponJas]

Cheers chaps. Just looking forward to the darker evenings now. ? 

Late nights and work don't mix too well for me. But hey ho, weekends were invented for astronomers!!