havent seen any weather reports, so here is one, Perfect day, just enough temperature to take the nip out of the air very light breeze, totally clear sky's you should have a great night, good luck. That's at Woodford 2:45
I'm staying home to test some gear, hopefully next time.
By far the best and longest observing session I've managed so far!! I crawled into bed around 5:30am... haven't been up THAT late in a while!!
There was some eyepoping moments trying out different eye pieces with and without the 0III filter!!
Yes another great night out, despite the best effort of the wind, at least it wasn't as windy as last month and did have some good calm spells. Got to see a bunch of new (to me) clusters and nebulae both in my little scope and those of others
Special thanks to James, Adrian, Morton, and Steffen!!
Your equipment loans and views really helped open my eyes (pun intended!)...
With now further delay, here is the timelapse from yesterday...
Camera suffered a little bit of dew right at the end, but it seemed like a nice end to the sequence, so I left it in. Enjoy!
My first time there. It a great location. That fireplace is really nice on a cold night! Next time I will know where to set up the scope.
Didn't get any images as there was some star trailing on the frames. That's what happens when you don't use a mount for two years and forget how to use the polar alignment routine.
It was good to be able to get in some photon time. Good to meet you John for the first time too, and the more familiar faces were also good to see.
A group of 5 of us stayed til very late to see Andromeda and M33 come over the tree tops. Seeing conditions weren't too good by then, and detail was difficult to make out in them. I did manage to pick out a few H2 regions in M33 using the blinking technique - just amazes me how these H2 region just leap out with the blinked in filter, and just so not there without it.
Oleg and I were the last to leave at 3am.
Adrian, that 30mm EP of yours has made a significant impression on me. VERY significant...
Oh, and that fireplace. Sooooo good in the cold...
though I'll be glad my winter boots are arriving soon....
