Well, you wouldn't believe it, hang on...let me just pinch myself..
ouch...yep it's real
...I actually managed to collect an entire image data set last night
...
After arriving at the observatory around 10pm, it took until bloody midnight
for the bloody clouds to roll away but man, I was there waiting
After the Moon set, I spent some time collecting for my longer project before it got too low and then with a pristine steady sky above just begging for some attention and a beautiful Milky Way half way up the sky...I decided on something subtle but beautiful and bright and that I could get a full colour image of before I left.
This is the dark hole known as Barnard 86 accompanied by the open star cluster NGC 6520 embedded in 100,000's of stars in the Milky Way...I got my desperately needed imaging hit
I finished off in the cold crisp morning witnessing a glorious display of Zodiacal Light, a lovely triangular tapering beam that stretched to almost overhead
...needless to say, I drove home happy
Barnard's Ghost
How many planets are in this frame I wonder?...
Tell me there ain't any life out amongst all that 