Who’s out ?

[Tonyhaz]

Clear skies in sunny Essex, who’s out the weekend with the scope, and where you going ? 

Ill be in the garden . 

Happy Gazing All

[Hallingskies]

Just over the water from you, looking out the window at clear skies and feeling guilty for not firing my gear up, but am tired out having spent all day painting the outside of my house. I know I shall regret this missed opportunity...

[paul mc c]

Total cloud in Belfast.....?

[Gina]

Clear here ATM but lots of moon!

[knobby]

Doing some very lazy moon gazing ... From inside though 

[alacant]

Alicante: 2 hour window before the clouds come. 10x3minutes into ngc7789. Moon too bright for anything fuzzy.

Good luck everyone:)

[xtreemchaos]

ill be in my obsyroom where else ? heres what my moon looks like tonight when it isn't covered with cloud.

[JamesF]

Not heavily cloudy here, but the Moon is showing that there's a definite haze in the sky so I don't reckon the seeing is going to be up to much.  Shame.  It's been a lovely day.  I even wore a t-shirt and shorts when I went to the pool today.

The forecast suggests things might improve, so I'll give it an hour or so and have another look.

James

[wxsatuser]

Out now with 10x600secs Ha on Heart and Soul. Keep going until or if cloud shows up.

[geordie85]

It's "clear" here but the moon and high haze are definitely apparent. Last night was the same but it did clear just before the moon set. 

Just set up and taking some test subs now. 

[Craney]

Hazey skies with invading stratocumulus here in Harrogate..... still, have had 2 clear nights in a row.  Not complaining......much.

[johnfosteruk]

Hazy here, but only a light haze so it's the perfect moon filter  

[Hawksmoor]

On a political march so no astronomy for a couple of nights

George 

[Tonyhaz]

Good to see you all doing something, Saturday is supposed to be better here, fab moon pic, and set up pix, moon is bright though, but still enjoy looking at it. 

Keep warm, no you knobby lol telescope glamping ?

[wxsatuser]

Came in as cloud appeared but got a bakers dozen of Heart and Soul.

A quick process in PI and PS CC do a better one later with more time. ?
13x 600secs Atik 383L, Samyang 135mm f/2, Astrodon 5nm filter.

[Tonyhaz]

Good capture 

[wxsatuser]

1 minute ago, Tonyhaz said:

Good capture 

Thanks, was hoping for double the subs but not to be.

[Tonyhaz]

3 minutes ago, wxsatuser said:

Thanks, was hoping for double the subs but not to be.

Always next time, I got neighbor with mega bright garden LED light on, so I’m screwed lol 

[Davey-T]

Set up in clear skies but bands of cloud soon appeared, just looked out and high haze now so packed up.

Dave

[John]

Astro society meeting in Bristol earlier tonight. I took a small scope up so that we could show some younger astronomers the Moon, Mars and Saturn, from the centre of Bristol. They seemed to enjoy that - first sight of Saturn for some of them . Back home now with the same small scope out doing some more lunar observing and some binary stars. Rather too hazy for deep sky stuff.

Hopefully up at the society observatory tomorrow evening for some more outreach. It's International Observe the Moon Night tomorrow you know !

 

 

[iPeace]

Just got back in from a Moon session with the 8" f/6 Newt. Clear enough, but seeing was waves of jelly, so the delicate stuff will have to wait for a better night. Good to get out, though.

[geordie85]

44 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Set up in clear skies but bands of cloud soon appeared, just looked out and high haze now so packed up.

Dave

That's how my skies were earlier. Glad I persisted though as its clear now 

[Davey-T]

25 minutes ago, geordie85 said:

That's how my skies were earlier. Glad I persisted though as its clear now 

Still murky here and horrendous dew.

Dave

[geordie85]

4 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

Still murky here and horrendous dew.

Dave

I've got really bad dew too but thankfully I bought some decent dew straps at IAS last year. 

Unfortunately I've been beaten by poor power. Running my neq6 and dew straps from a skywatcher 17ah power bank has proven rather difficult to image for more than 4 hours. 

I need a new tracer battery. 

[Jkulin]

On my 4th 1200s sub of Mel 15, there's a little haze but guiding is running around 0.23rms