First for what seems like ages...

[kev 102 42]

Just off up to the mountain centre for a walk . What should I ask them about the weekend?

Helen

is it ok to use the car park would be top of the list,if it is game on......kev

[Psychobilly]

Check out the site and an alternate which is coming out of the center turn rught at the end of the road and drive till you coem to a pool by a cattle grid...

Billy...

Thanks Helen...

Snow on the tops of the western Beacons this morning ...

[markcol]

Looks like you had a busy night Billy, well done it's nice to see someone do Kembles Cascade.

Bit nippy up Pen-Y-Fan today I'l bet, don't know what the forecast is like for the weekend, think we'll have to make the most of it if tonight's clear as well.

Mark

[DeanWatson]

thats a really nice group billy, 108 and the owl - toughies, reminds me that I need to redo my go at them at some point.

[Beyond_Vision]

Great set of captures Pete I bet you were going stir crazy up until last night. I nearly threw my laptop over the fence after having a very frustrating evening. My laptop refused to talk to my DSI II and QHY8, infact I think two of my laptops USB ports seemed to be knackered. I eventually found that the plug for the hub's PSU wasn't pushed in to mains adapter properly and all the usb kit was trying to take power from a single USB connection. After wasting ages going around in circles I finally got going and left my rig imaging over night.

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

Thansk again for the comments...

I was so relieved to get out ... not happy about the power outage but decided it was an Omen and better to pack up especially as the mount refused to do an EQ North 2 star align on Betelguese and Rigel no matter how mant times i tried - it was the only bit of sky without cloud ans I only wanted to grab soem subs on M42... and with no decent way of aligning with the reticules EP batteries dead I decided to call it a night... Judging by the frost on the car this morning the skies must have cleared quite quickly but at least I got out and did something I enjoy...

I have converted the Kembels Cascade image to B&W , Inverted and pushed it to extremes to try and see how deep the image goes... will have to print it out and spend a few hours analysing it...

Here it is if anyones interested...

(click to enlarge)

Billy...

[RichieJarvis]

Those are galaxies, right?

You can definitely see more on the inverse image...

[Psychobilly]

Stars I would have thought Richie as the catalogues arent showing many galaxies in this area......

[RichieJarvis]

Oh - i thought they were faint fuzzies?

[Psychobilly]

Have a look at this if you want to see a fuzzy hunting image.... Virgo Super Cluster...

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/PsychoBillyUK/AstroPhotography#5196068881843183874

Billy...

[Taff]

Hi Billy' they are very nice captures.Taff

[jgs001]

Lovely cascade image Billy, I keep meaning to give it a try, just waiting for it to get out of the north a bit more... Not sure I've got the FOV with the Vista... hmmm, might piggy back the camera with the 250....