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Clear skies the last couple of days have given mixed fortunes. Yesterday transparency was fabulous, but seeing wobbly, whilst the couple of nights before that were the opposite. But between them, I managed to see quite a lot.
The last couple of nights were mostly cloudless, moonless, but with curiously poor transparency (including lots of sky glow). Nonetheless I made the best of conditions to look up some galaxies and of course, the red planet.
After the weather forecast promised clear skies on Friday, it was cloudy. On Saturday the forecast was for cloud: but it was clear. So out I went.
February 26, 2012
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Yesterday, on a clear, dark but cold and wobbly night, I tried to track down some faint fuzzies.
February 19, 2012
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This December has not been the best month of stargazing for me: although the weather was OK at times, I was just too tired from work on many clear nights, and I had other competing demands such as sending in my butterfly records before Xmas. So I took the chance last night when, a front [...]
Me-other-half has got herself a new digital camera, and this got my little brain working. A couple of nights ago I borrowed it to take some long exposure photos of the sky at night, just to see what came out. Here are a couple of the results.
Yesterday on a very cold but clear night, I hunted down three deep sky objects on the Hidden Treasures List.
October 23, 2011
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On 7th October (going back a bit I know), I finally sketched Copernicus crater.
Before the weather turned bad, I managed three consecutive nights out under clear skies, and here is what I saw.
October 6, 2011
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On 8th May I was out with the scope hoping for some deep sky rewards, but life was against me once again.
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