The skies have cleared
Well for about 4 hours last night. Seeing was only about 40% so not great but at least the moon didn’t come up until the clouds had closed in. Bit
Nik Looker (BSc, PhD, MIET) – Former academic, daytime software engineer, full time astronomy nut
Well for about 4 hours last night. Seeing was only about 40% so not great but at least the moon didn’t come up until the clouds had closed in. Bit
It’s that time of year again where I start thinking about early Christmas presents to myself. The keyword this year is ‘mono’. Whilst I think I’ll still be using my
I was hoping for more light on this later in the month but the sky has been cloudy/windy/just generally rotten since so I decided to put some effort into processing
So on the 26th October there was a nice break in the otherwise dire cloud/rain/fog/plague of locusts and I tried out the next test astroberry rig on M31. I ended
OK, so after my moan yesterday it looks like we may get some clear sky tonight (I’m holding my breath and crossing my fingers). So time to try the new
Why I Moan (A little bit of Science) I’ve been moaning quite a lot about how few clear nights we’ve had this year, or at least nights where it’s been
Over the years I’ve tried various routes to move away from having a Windows computer sitting hooked up to my rig. Long USB cables, x86 Single Board Controllers, voodoo, but
About 3 hours of nice clear dark skies on Friday night before: a) the moon appeared; b) the clouds came in. Finished before 11.30 which makes a change. In other
A couple of nights of properly dark skies this week (no moon and none of this nautical twilight summer rubbish). Got about 8 hours of light but still think I
Got back from holiday and August has departed. Thought I’d have another quick go at the planets again with my Barlow x2 this time. Better but still not great although