How is it for you?

[magician]

Weather wise!!

current conditions in North Wales, cold clear and cloudless,I said CLOUDLESS! Birds have taken to flying again,looking good at the moment.

Cheers Frank.

[geppetto]

Still clear here Frank :shock:

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Fingers frozen but crossed here in sunny Yorkshire. Some bits of cloud, but not much, and it's getting dark.

Captain Chaos

[SteelRat]

Clear here too

[George]

Very clear here

Snow has half melted and turned to ice tho, must watchit later when the scope comes out.

[Helen]

Clear, but with a howling gale here in S Wales.... and I've still got a heavy cold, so not sure I'll be let out!

Helen

[GordonCopestake]

Freezing cold but not a cloud in the sky, the clearest i've seen in some time. Typically I have other commitments tonight, but might get some viewing in late tonight

[ZOG]

It's clear her at the mo but the forecast is for sharply dropping temperatures and snow. I may just get an hour out there though.

[CELESCOPE]

clear here in Essex, but very windy , in more ways than one , should,nt have had those baked beans for lunch , so anyway dont look like i will get out tonight with this wind, unless it drops

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Got out, got set up, rigged up a 500mm telephoto lens on the Newt to have a go at autoguiding - SC3 won't talk to PHD. SC3 won't talk to K3CCD for LX. Pooh. Got the Nikon out, tried M33 but each sub was cloud damaged. More pooh.

Got colder and colder and finally started suffering from fine snow.

Game over for now at least.

Hope somebody's getting better luck.

Captain Chaos

[George]

Got out, got set up, rigged up a 500mm telephoto lens on the Newt to have a go at autoguiding - SC3 won't talk to PHD. SC3 won't talk to K3CCD for LX. Pooh. Got the Nikon out, tried M33 but each sub was cloud damaged. More pooh.

Got colder and colder and finally started suffering from fine snow.

Game over for now at least.

Hope somebody's getting better luck.

Captain Chaos

Had a shower got me thermals on and.......................&%$# clouded over , Im downwind of you CC so its your fault

[geppetto]

Well, I got a whole hour and a half :shock:of jet black sky till the white fluffy stuff

covered it over wall to wall.

ee by gum it were nice to be out

[Greg]

Cold and clear....

However my Skyscan upgrade turned up from Auntie Flo

Do I ....

A) Take the mount apart and fit the upgrade....

Don't touch anything and just do what I normally do..Go out and observe with the standard HEQ5...

C) Do the upgrade...Get the scope and mount outside ...Spend 20min trying to suss out the GOTO..Get frustrated and get the bins out.

D) Just get the bins out and wait untill i'm less tired..

[Caz]

I would definately go with option B, these clear nights are few and far between, why waste that time getting frustrated when you can enjoy those skies...

[geppetto]

Agreed

B has to be the choice as Caz says, they are few and far between.

[Greg]

B it is....

[tom.yates]

Clear as a bell in Wigan to just rolled back the roof of the observatory Steve i am giving the orthos a run out.

[Johnny Hormone]

Well it is cold, crisp and clear outside... and I don't know which is/was more frustrating, either

1) sitting in with my leg in cast and a new scope, gazing out at the cloudy sky, or

2) sitting in with new scope and unable to move it outside to make use of the clear skies due to the leg!

GAH! :?

[jaspa]

Clear here, fantastic viewing best i have seen in my short time.

Also no wind very still but it is -1

:p

[John]

Clear, cold but very windy here in North Somerset. Too much wind for the dob so I've been popping in and out with the Megrez 90. Nice views of the usual suspects but the wind is even too much for that little scope at low power. I've just tried out the 26mm 2inch Super View eyepiece that came with the dob - it's "only" a kellner design but works very nicely on DSO's - not as much glass as my other designs I suppose.

John

[lunator]

Windy & quite cloudy here.

It may clear later

I live in hope

[jaspa]

Just been forced back in by a blanket of cloud. was good while it lasted.

Also had lots of vision problems (eyepieces fogging up) i assume this is the good old dew problem i have read about on here.

[ZOG]

Just had 5 hours of clear dark skies and no wind. Seeing was good and I reckon this has been my best session to date. Saturn was shining like a diamond, M42 the best I've seen it yet, the double cluster and many other targets just jumped out of an inky sky. I'm frozen, I'm dead beat, but I'm happy.

[magician]

THAT'S what its all about Zog,glad you had such a good night.

Cheers Frank

[G1ZmO]

I sympathise Johnny Hormone,

Last night here was lovely and clear. Not a cloud to be seen...at least not from the window of the hospital I was in! GAH!!!!

Thankfully I've now been discharged and of course its now going to be cloudy for a few more months lol

Good luck to all

Paul