Heads up ! Starcount !

[geoflewis]

Very milky skies here tonight. I can only see 4 of the lttle dipper and only 17 in Orion. Trying to image the Witches Head, but I'm fearing that it is too faint a target to get much in these skies, though it is just visible in stretched 10 min L subs.

[Saganite]

Since I did the count it has changed to zero stars, then to a full but hazy view of Orion, and now fleeting glimpses of Sirius only. The Dob is well and truly cooled by now so I think I will chance my luck a little longer.

[LeeRich]

Been in the obys over 2hrs now, i have counted them in succession 5 times and 4 of the 5 times i now get 25. Whats difficult is i can see more with adverted vision so looking left to right, right to

left repeatedly is giving me a more accurate count of what i can actually see with direct vision if that made sense ? ? ?

[F15Rules]

53 minutes ago, John said:

32 ! - great skies and eyes 

John"s a poet but doesn't know it!

Dave

[JamesF]

Definitely getting hazy here -- we do have fog forecast for later this evening, so perhaps no surprise.  It didn't help that it was clearly kicking out time at the cricket club after the skittles match either

However, my tally for the evening over multiple counts was 25 to 27 stars, two meteorites, Ryan Air Tenerife to Manchester, Easyjet Lisbon to Bristol and a vixen looking for a mate.  I'm assuming that 56 Ori is in the rectangle and allowable.  Without getting a ruler out on a star chart I couldn't be certain though.

James

[mdstuart]

I managed 12 stars here. Orion is however in the direction of Bristol which is my worst direction for glow..

Mark

[David Levi]

Just got back from Pont-Ar-Wysg in the Brecon Beacons where I counted 22 stars. The seeing was very poor with a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. High magnifications, above 106x, produced fuzzy, fast twinkling stars and the E and F stars of the Trapezium were nowhere to be seen.

Unfortunately I have arrived back too late to look at the stars in Orion from my back garden. The constellation is low in the west in the murk now.

[happy-kat]

I manged 4 and just saw 5 using averted vision. So called bortle 5 skies but the reality is 5 just stands for the number of street lights in my immediate vicinity and this one here is not the closest, that one is just 6 metres away over my shoulder behind the direction I am facing. If I had been earlier Orion would not be clear of the trees or neighbour's roofs though the sky hasn't been clear for ages to have checked it.