Big thanks Anthony for the use of your dark skies last night.
My son Ron and I had a blast, the view of the Ghost of Jupiter was the highlight of Ron's night(through Hector)
he is planning to brag to his Science teacher about it.
The highlight for me was finding the hamburger galaxy as I was unable to see it in my light polluted yard. It was really exciting for me to look through the other scopes and eye pieces there and a really big
thank you to everyone for making ron and myself feel really welcome and part of the group especially Louie for letting me look through his ep's.
If she who rules with an Iron Rod lets me out of the house I will love to attend next weekend. From my yard I can see about 15% of the night sky so that limits what I can look for, but last night I could see so much sky I didn't know where to point my scope
next week I will have a list of objects to aim for. With a little homework I will try for easy targets and a few that will stretch my knowledge of the sky and my scopes abilities. I also found out that there are red lights and there are red lights lol I'll try and bring something a little less bright next time. Being a newbe I think I'm entitled to make all the mistakes at least once. All my friends who have seen my 8" scope have been very impressed with it's size but my pride and joy looked like a little baby compared to what was on show last night, saying that I did manage to find a DSO that the 12" didnt
I had a great time and met a nice bunch of blokes,learnt more about the night sky,got abused for not drinking tea or coffee
,found new DSO's,saw Jupiter (my favourite planet) in a 20' Dob,made some new friends,got lost on the way home he he he.
All in all a great night out for the price of a few litres of petrol.
Irish