Clear out tonight?

[OXO]

Just popped outside got a few breaks in the clouds gonna setup and have a shiffty at Vega and CO anyone else going out?

James

[GazOC]

I'm leathered mate, I'd break my kit!! I might risk the binos.....

[OXO]

Bino's eh hehe got mine here too just looked at around 15 messiers in a couple of mins(No goto needed)

[anthony]

Looked really promising down Bristol way tonight - until it started getting dark. Set up for a bit of imaging but only got about 30 mins of data. The first 15 mins it was still fairly light 10.45. :sunny: 2nd 15 mins I was getting light cloud!!!

Anthony

[Kain]

Yup it's a nice night with no heat haze either.

Make the most of it! it will be Rubbish untill the weekend after tonight! I was going out tonight myself, stomach says otherwise!

Kain

[cappella]

what a fantastic clear night. just got home after a night out, had to stop and admire Jupiter blazing away. the Moon low in the sky looked fantastic.

[anthony]

Hunger?

[anthony]

Here's what I got tonight in that half hour, so very pleased indeed.

3 minute subs through WO 80mm at about F4,(FR in place), and Mx7c.

Hope you guys have had a good night too.

Will try and do a better process tomorrow

Anthony

[cappella]

fantastic picture...

[OXO]

Excellent image Anthony

[geppetto]

Very nice image Anthony 8)

Too cloudy here but watched the moon for a while, very low and beatiful.

[FLO]

V nice Anthony 8)

[Andrew]

Excellent image Anthony.

It's cloudy as unusal here! Looked like it was going to be good until it started to get dark. Then the cloud rolled in!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Nice pic Anthony!

I wasn't going to bother as it was raining very lightly up to half past eleven. At midnight I stuck my head outside and was pleasantly surprised to find black bits with white dots.

Grabbed the DSLR and started lugging stuff about, EQ6, counterweights, 12" Newtonian Skelescope and various wiry things.

First test was "does the finder bracket work?" - yes it does. Great result.

Next test was "can I get the DSLR to focus?" - yes.

Final test was "can I reach to work the SLR when it's mounted?" - can I heck as like.

Result was a dozen or so frames of M13 nicely framed and un-nicely out of focus.

Can't win 'em all can you?

Captain Chaos

[Ambermile]

Hey - two out of three ain't bad CC...

Getting the scope built and to this stage in the time you have is achievement enough and yet you want it take pix first night out??

Arthur