adamsp123 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Nice and clear till dusk, of course all set up now it's like out of a movie the amount of darn fog that has appeared ..blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beulah Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 We had a great long hike this afternoon in beautifully clear weather...sunset was clear...now, however!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catanonia Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Been totally fog bound in Sandbach all day. Vis down to 100m earlier and not much better now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary1 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 fog here all day in birmingham and still is...ah well there's always the tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshane Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 blumming foggy here too in Stockport - lovely orange sky everywhere after a fine sunny day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dweller25 Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 It's clear here in Bury but seeing is poor - Mars has a river flowing over it !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlingtonskies Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 in Darlington - been cloudy all day and there are breaks in cloud. just seen mars but by the time i moved around it was covered. so want to use my new barlow lens x3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talitha Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Try some planet viewing when it's foggy, it seems to steady things up. The best view i ever had of Mars was when the fog was so thick i couldn't see it naked eye any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beulah Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Talitha is so right - I had been struggling to get good views of Mars in a clear sky all this year until a few nights ago when some cloud/fog came over...I perservered and the detail on this planet was incredible, and it could take some high mags!I can't press "submit" on this post until I say this...Sorry about the F in Fog....(I've tried to find a Youtube clip of this famous blooper being uttered by the legendary Mr Fish, but alas...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlingtonskies Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 sorry, just get the grasp. try and have a look at the planets if its foggy and light cloud or just foggy. i take it you have to know the sky well to get a grasp of where the planets are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talitha Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 "i take it you have to know the sky well to get a grasp of where the planets are "Not well.. just well enough. Right now Mars and Saturn are the main events as far as planets go. My sky is dark and i can easily locate them without optical aid but if you're under light polluted skies, i'm not sure how easy/hard it would be to see them.Mars (in Cancer) rises mid-afternoon, culminates (reaches its highest altitude) at about 11pm at about 60 degrees altitude, and sets just before sunrise. Saturn (in Virgo) rises due east at about 9pm, culminates (38 degrees altitude) at about 3am, and sets after sunrise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlingtonskies Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 oh yeah, sorryI can now locate them by naked eye with application on iphone and have looked through them easily through telescope however my barlow x3 aint work either with the wide angle 25m (mag 108) nor my 10m (mag 270) (practical magnification is 260 for my scope) just could not focus. Just got confused about seeing them better in the fog. the light pollution was bad due to clouds, that would make a difference???sorry, 3rd time out with telescope. can locate the planets in like 5 mins from set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyH Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 My best ever view of Saturn was through a thin layer of haze in the summer, some years back. Everything but the brightest stars were gone.High level cloud and thin fog usually means steady air above, so you can crank that magnification.Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talitha Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Ah, i see now.. sorry about misunderstanding you, i thought you needed to know where the planets were. TBH, i wouldn't have been able to see Mars that night if the scope hadn't already been tracking it before the fogbank rolled up the hill. Merely knowing where Mars was located in the sky wouldn't have helped me too much. Regarding the clouds, yes they make a difference... fog is good, clouds are bad (unless there's a drought ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlingtonskies Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 kewlio, i will remember that as there are a lot of foggy nights here for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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