clear skies ahead

[stafford_stargazer]

Scopes out cooling as we speak.

Looks like a nice evening,hope to get some viewing in.

Is the sky too bright at nightime at the moment for DSO ?

What galaxies or clusters are best at this moment in time?

Thanks G

[kidlands]

All skies clear in Berkshire too, DSO's difficult this time of year, though its made all the more difficult by the the light pollution where I am.

[Worzsel]

It's looking good here too (dudley)

[yeti monster]

I had a tremendous introduction to M13 in Hercules last night, also the ring nebula is good inspite of the light sky. Keep your search to the high stuff for the best chance of seeing anything.

[stafford_stargazer]

Sounds good,belive there to not easy to see at the moment,now dudley not a million mile away,we could have a 2 man star party.

Yeti.

What scope you using to view m13?

G

[kidlands]

What time are you guys getting the best viewing? I'm up at 5am so cant do much viewing at this time until my days off.

[stafford_stargazer]

totally undestand,im up at 5.45 usally buy its my day off tomorrow

G

[kidlands]

my last day (of 4) on friday so fingures crossed for friday!

[yeti monster]

Yeti.

What scope you using to view m13?

G

I was using the 10" SNT with modified Crayford dual speed (I'll stop mentioning it soon, promise) focuser.

Using the 20mm WA it was mostly a rather obvious fuzzy, but took magnification really well until I settled on the 12mm WA and the 7mm UWAn for best views, barlowing the 7mm left it too dim and filling the FOV, thus losing the effect of the cluster.

[stafford_stargazer]

Might have a nosey tonight for it,want to try my new swa 32mm panaview out properly.

Should be ok if i can find it.lol

G

[Llamanaut]

im off out tonight with the dob, new dark sky site that hopefully will produce good results and i can keep an eye on my car (it was almost broken into at my last dark sky site) as i was packing up last time a bloke tried to forcefully open my door... managed to shout oi and he scarpered, put me off a bit though!

Had a quick squint last night with my Bresser 70mm from light polluted Weymouth and managed to see M13 and the ring nebula quite easily

Hopefully having a look at the southern messiers around scorpius tonight

[kidlands]

Gary and Llamafarmer what collimation tool do you use for your dob?

[Hypernova]

It is looking alright here at the moment, broken cloud drifting past. I will have to wait and see what the weather is going to do, forecast so far is for partly cloudy.

[stafford_stargazer]

I use one i got from FLO last week,its fine now but had too collimate my laser collimator.lol.

Had few probs with it at first in as much as i always got different results with it,i found the adjustment screws and collimated it,what a difference it is,easy to setup and use now.

And since using the laser,it has been alot brighter when looking through it,guess it was a bit out before.

G

[Beulah]

I've been up since 4:30am this morning and plan to go out about midnight.

[eyespy]

Just got a cheshire from flo,so attempting my first colimation ..bit too blowy out there as im in margate ...or im i too protective over my scope lol:icon_confused:

[kidlands]

ah yes I remember reading your thread now. Hope your Panaview is good it's one I hope to purchase in the future on recomendation, got a Hyperion17 on recomendation too cant wait to use it.

[stafford_stargazer]

same scope as me,get out there ,they are more robust than you think,i use to be like that,now i just want to see many things.lol.

What eyepiece you got?

Beulah

Nice to see dedication,i usually get a bit tired when in work so give up about 1am,woke up other night about 3am and the sky looked so much crisper and clear,just couldnt do it though was up at 5.45am

g

G

[kidlands]

Margate many a summer spent there on the beach and in 'Dreamland' amusement park eyespy!

[kidlands]

Buelah fair play to you but I get soooo tired on earlies and I have to be a tad responsible for my job unfortunately.

[John]

There are some good DSO's to be seen once they are high enough in the sky. As well as the great M13 globular cluster there is another nice globular in Hercules, M92 which my 10" was resolving very nicely the other night. As well as the famous ring there is the Dumbell Nebula not far away in Vulpecula - much larger than the ring and just as nice IMHO. The Veil nebula in Cygnus is my favourite summer DSO but you really need good UHC or even better OIII filter to pick it's 2 brightest parts.

[Worzsel]

Blimy Beulah, My littlest child had me up at 5 and I am planning to be in bed by midnight

[Llamanaut]

hi kidlands, sorry took me a while to reply, i use a hotech, its a bit expensive at £95 but ultra accurate and im collimated in about 5 minutes (secondary and primary!) its so easy

[Digz]

well Im out tonight to get first light of the moon with my new scope, might even see if I can get any images of it with my DSLR!

[LukeSkywatcher]

I've bagged some good DSO's (M5,M57,M104) over the last couple of weeks at about 2am (nice and dark then) even with the LP i have when looking west (my LPF cuts right through that though).

Funny thing was i wasnt looking for any of them. I just wandered upon them. I also saw something that looked suspiciously like the Dumbbell Nebula (M27)