Cold and Clear.

[Greg]

Scopes are out cooling down, currently 4 Deg C. Frost forcast for later

Anyone else cooling down.

[geppetto]

My stuffs out but the seeing's not great.

Only the main stars visible and a touch of mistiness.

Might improve later though

[blinky]

Just heading out now. The hut dor has been open for an hour and a half so should be cooled down nicely. Going to try and see Andromeda again, now that the moon is away, or at leat in the other part of the sky

[Naz]

Just came in from having a look around, gave up when the moon popped up. Temp is 12 degrees, 10th clear night in a row. :D spoilt only by the moon for the DSO's

It's a bit different to my previous location where I was lucky to 12 minutes clear a month.

Unfortunately not set up to do any serious observing. Hope to have the new house by mid January 2007, then a couple of weeks to sort it out and set an observing point in the garden. Should be ready for the spring with any luck.

naz.

ps what is cold, forgot already the -20 degrees I used to suffer!

[Caz]

Its cold and clear, but no observing for me, got collimation issues...

Caz

[blinky]

I Just came back in, was really wanting a good lookat andromeda but could not see anything more than a fuzzy disk. I am hoping for more than that with 8" of aperature. Hopefully it's all the moons fault and when it goes I will get some nice views of it

[scotty365]

I Just came back in, was really wanting a good lookat andromeda but could not see anything more than a fuzzy disk. I am hoping for more than that with 8" of aperature. Hopefully it's all the moons fault and when it goes I will get some nice views of it

I was showing someone that tonight and im afraid that the only way you can see it clearly is via imaging - I coudnt get it with my unmodded Toucam either.

Scotty

[daz]

Don't know about the clear bit - bit murky down my way!

[SteelRat]

Got some moon shots with the D900 earlier before it got up behind the branches of the trees - now the fog has set in proper and its pretty damp out there. Stayin up tonight anyway so will pop out again later on - left the stuff setup (under a cover though).

[Greg]

I Just came back in, was really wanting a good lookat andromeda but could not see anything more than a fuzzy disk. I am hoping for more than that with 8" of aperature. Hopefully it's all the moons fault and when it goes I will get some nice views of it

Thats about it for Andromeda visually...

It's better when there's no moon and your eyes are fully dark adapted. In a good sky you may just, just make out some dust lanes.

It will fill a 40mm eyepiece in your 8". Spectacular sight. The more you look the more you see.

[FLO]

What is your lowest mag' eyepiece Blinky?

[daz]

It does take practice Blinky