Well, two great nights in a row!!
Out last night early to get the scope set up and cooled down. Mars was sooooo clear I almost wished I had a camera that could take a shot through my scope
It was still a bit low for really good viewing so I swung over to the Megellanic clouds. Spent ages in 47Tuc and could resolve stars that I had never previously seen near the centre. A cruize around the SMC grabbed a few clusters. Over to the LMC starting with the Tarantula Nebula, what a sight!! Another cruize through the LMC turned up sooo many clusters, its amazing to see stars and clusters in another galaxy. Really need to get a good map of this area. Ended up with a sore right eyeball so a rest was needed.
Left the scope out under a garbag and went inside for an hour to wait for Mars to get higher. Out again and it was simply so brilliant and clear, real detail even if it is getting visually smaller now I have had two nights in a row of the best views I have had this season.
After all the cloudy weather it only takes a couple of nights like this to get you going again.
Keep looking up.
