Could it be, yet another near perfect night???..................

[Daniel]

...............Well, apart from the whole sky being brightened by the reflection from the snow anyway!

Daniel
:O)

[Fay]

Setup outside, but have no dew strip for 6". Could not even clear it with hairdryer, frost too heavy, so in now

[JohnP]

blimey Fay you posted that msg at 5.30pm.... given up already.....??? I have to drive to Gatwick at 8pm - hopefully back by 10'ish - may set up then if still looks clear...

[Rocket Pooch]

Gatwick been there too much recently........

[Fay]

Well, I know John. I was only planning on the Moon with 6" & I haven't got a dew shield for it. Up early in the morning

[MarkS]

Went out last night to do Orion Neb + Running Man Neb with the ED80. 

Waste of time.  With a 5min exposure at F6 these were the skyglow figures I was getting:
Red: 360 electrons
Green: 540 electrons
Blue: 560 electrons

And that was with a CLS filter!  It is the brightest I've ever measured on a moonless night.
Anyway, I captured 3 hours of very noisy data.  The Peltier cooling on the Canon 350D (though hardly needed) behaved flawlessly again, at a very gentle setting of -8C.

Mark

[Ian]

Gatwick been there too much recently........

Me too...

It's OK if you like Costa Coffee. You're screwed if you don't.

[JohnP]

Better than Starbucks anyway....

Flights delayed so didn't get back till gone 11 - too knackered to set up....