A scinttilating session

[Jack]

I had set-up early this evening and began observing at about 9pm. Transparency wasn't great, the eerie orange (London) sky glow confirmed this, so I decided to make Saturn my subject of scrutiny. I also had my Sony 3.2 Cybershot at hand to try some afocal imaging. But try as I might I couldn't find decent focus to discern much detail i.e. banding. I noticed some scintillation even on as small an aperture scope as my Megrez 72. So at about 10-15pm I decided to pack up and call it a night, just as the clouds started to close in. Can anyone else confirm the poor seeing.

Thanks.

[insomnia]

I am in Peterborough and the skys opened up a little at about 10pm, The clouds closed in at midnight. To much moonlight, I couldnt get a good focus on much this night.