Anyone else sitting under clouds?

[mark7331]

All setup. CCD cooled, OTA cooled, fans on, laptop ready and another duff forecast.

Still Sat24 says it'll be clear soon. Hopefully.

Anyone else having better luck?

[Revs]

No . A mix of patchy cloud and heavy showers. I was gonna go see Keith at the Astronomy Centre tonight, but alas..

[Photosbykev]

Mixture of clouds, stars and rain on Anglesey. I did try to play with Jupiter for all of 5 minutes but nothing doing.

[John]

Nope - I've just come in from a 3 hour session testing 10 Hyperion and Vixen LVW eyepieces - can't believe it's been a clear night here in North Somerset

[Doug]

There should be a gap by weather station SAT 24 but no sign of a brake in Essex

Doug

Essex

[3ggman]

Its been really clear here (west of Ireland) apart from one heavy shower and a mad dash to get everything inside, it only lasted a few minutes so all was good.

[Sam]

Partly cloudy here, with upper level wave cloud and some lower patches - nice and warm though. But it is daytime here!

I hope your cloud clears and get a good session - it's a real pain when you set it all up and don't get to use it.

[yeti monster]

The bright shiney thing popped out this moroning and the sky had an unusual blueness about it. Fingers are tentatively crossed for the evening.........

[Deneb]

Someone shoot the weatherman....

Nadeem.

[mark7331]

Wahey! Managed to align and point at M45 and....the clouds are back.

Anyway, I'm still enjoying it. It's a nice warm evening. Perhaps a bit moist but you can't have everything.

Someone shoot the weatherman....

I'll second that.

[Revs]

I've given up. The heavens have opened over Hudds again. But between the clouds an hour ago it was superb, really clear.

[mark7331]

I'm packing up too. Clouds, clouds and more clouds all night. All I had here was a ten minute clear patch. Try again tomorrow I guess.

[Ibbo!]

Been ding some DSLR imaging of the Pelican and just moved over to M33 also tried a few AVI's of the big lad only to find out they have not been saved to the external HHD :mad:

though on second thoughts I haven't processed the ones I took on the 2nd or 8th yet

Steve

[Revs]

I was hoping to try out the new 8 and 12.5mm EP's tonight, but by the time I'd got the scope aligned, the clouds rolled in. I did manage to try the new Ultima with the Rev 32mm EP, though. A great improvement over the SW Barlow, no loss of light or quality and more AFOV. Really pleased with it. I wanted to get the Hyperion on Jupiter too, but I guess there's plenty of time for that.

[mark7331]

Steve, ouch! Bad luck.

Revs, sounds like a very usable EP. And yes, there's always more time and hopefully less clouds

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Still completely BLECH here in Groningen (The Netherlands). Might clear up later so fingers crossed.

[dobbie]

getting dark and still clear here not dragging big dobbie out cool down time etc.. got early start at work , so its the 102 evostar for a hour then bed :-(

[Mr George]

All setup. CCD cooled, OTA cooled, fans on, laptop ready and another duff forecast.

Do you mind me asking where you got your forecast from?

[Ags]

Cloud here, although the forecast was clear...

[Mr George]

Cloud here, although the forecast was clear...

And can I ask you the same question - where did you get your forecast?

[dobbie]

bbc weather site thats where mine came from..then search your area..

[Mr George]

bbc weather site thats where mine came from..then search your area..

Ok, so is this the bit of the BBC website where you type in the town you're in and get a little weather graphic for the weather that day/night? Or a little breakdown with symbols every 3 hours?

I'm only asking because I have a feeling the problem is that the BBC website is geared towards the general public e.g. a little bit of high cloud isn't going to block out the sun, so that is classed as sunny. I little bit of high cloud at night is irrelevant to most people but is disastrous for us astronomers.

Just a thought.

[MarkF]

Ok, so is this the bit of the BBC website where you type in the town you're in and get a little weather graphic for the weather that day/night? Or a little breakdown with symbols every 3 hours?

I'm only asking because I have a feeling the problem is that the BBC website is geared towards the general public e.g. a little bit of high cloud isn't going to block out the sun, so that is classed as sunny. I little bit of high cloud at night is irrelevant to most people but is disastrous for us astronomers.

Just a thought.

Very hazy high cloud was in an out all night here so far, packing in just doing some darks before turning in for the night, was doing 5 min subs of M27 but the last seven or so were affected by the high cloud coming in.

I think you are right about the BBC weather site, but that probably goes for most of them. Even the local airfield cloud detectors don't pick that thin transparent high stuff up.

[msinclairinork]

Flat out wind and rain here in Orkney For the first time I have all my bits togeather to have a bash at astrophotography and...clouds clouds cloud!!!

Well we had one cracking night on Friday, best I have seen for a while but where was I?....the pub If I knew it was going to be that good I would of picked the scope over the pints! lol

BBC says rubbish all week for me too

hope you all have better luck than me.

Michael

[mark7331]

Same high hazy clouds for me too MarkF. Made it impossible to get focus so I packed up about 2.

Had a good night here Thursday Michael, took some shots with my new scope and nearly fell of my chair! So much better than with the 6SE! Of course now I've seen what the scope can do it's going to be cloudy for the next 1000 years! Sorry!!

Mr George the forecasts I use are a combination of BBC and the MetOffice. I then cross reference them to the satellite image feeds of the MetOffice and sat24. This generally gives a good indication but it's difficult to guage the speed that clouds are moving on the satellite so I ended up waiting and waiting. The forecasts can say clear but that means "mostly clear in the time period". In other words - your guess is as good as mine.