Another long spell without cloud. Well that’s not exactly true, as there have been a few clear nights in batches. One forecasted and gave cloudless skies, but with a full moon and lots of high thin stuff, i didn’t even bother to venture out. The other a few weeks later didn’t look to bad, but with lots of early morning starts, I’ve not been able to stay awake long enough to do anything useful….
Observing Session: 2, May
Tonight ended a run of what has been the best week of observing to date. Five clear nights at the scope in seven days. I’m knackered! These last few sessions, have now now pushed me past the half way mark through my Messier List. I’ve now made 62 of the 110 objects. I have a feeling that the other remaining objects still to observe will be harder work than the first. While I have…
Observing Session 29, April
I have to admit that this session was a bit of a balls up in saving my observations long enough to get them written to the log. However, with one failure, I have one success, so the evening wasn’t completely wasted. So lets get the failure out the way first. I got myself a digital voice recorder a few months ago, but up until now, have never used it in anger. Until tonight that…
Another Bout of Galaxies: Observing Sessions 26/27 April
(M86, M84, NGC4388, NGC4387 and NGC4402 & lots of other eye candy)Another two observing nights in a row – again 🙂 Having said that though, the first, last Friday night, the conditions were really poor with a rising full Moon, so I won’t go into too much detail. hese last few weeks I’ve always tried to observe Comet C/2011 L4 Panstarrs, whenever there has been an opportunity Couldn’t see it at all for the first…