Wow a clear sky!

[old_eyes]

Well! After what feels like months of cloudy skies we have a beauty tonight. Started at 6pm (I know not quite dark yet, but Hey! It's a clear sky!) and still going at midnight. I can't remember the last time I saw so many stars. Everything running smoothly, so I can just take my time to enjoy watching Orion rise and sweep majestically across the sky. So much fun!

[Captain Scarlet]

I think it may even have been mid last week I had my first clear sky in ages. Unexpected at the time, so without bothering of a telescope I put on a huge coat took a chair into the field behind my house and just soaked in the stars for a couple of hours. SW Ireland so not unlike N Wales very dark, but the stars so bright and so many.

[John]

It is supposed to clear here at around 1:00 am for a couple of hours then cloud over again

If I'm still up I'll pop out with binoculars for a quick look if it does clear.

 

[JamesF]

We were supposed to get a few hours clear sky too, but there's still total cloud cover and the forecast has changed to fog until near dawn

James

[Tiny Clanger]

Clear outside forecast a cloudless two hours around midnight , so I was prepared, but the clear patch drifted in around an hour earlier , so I missed some of it.  Still, nearly two hours of clear skies and decent seeing ... felt like a rare treat !

Mind you, I squandered some of those precious minutes because I hadn't  realised how much I'd got used to the mak on an alt/az  which has been what I've used for the last two months while the planets have been well placed ...  I decided I should give the dob an outing tonight, and I kept nudging it the wrong way , doh !

Heather

[jonathan]

We've had a few good clear spells recently but they've been accompanied by a thick layer of impenetrable ice over the ground, so I haven't been very keen to go out there in the dark (plus it's bloody cold!)  A few minutes from the bathroom window is as much as I've had recently.

Edited January 10, 2021 by jonathan