NEWS

The best transparency and darkest conditions I’ve experienced in the UK.

First off, a horizon to horizon crisp and frosty Milky Way.

The sky on Anglesey was lovely and clear on Bank Holiday Monday

A list of bright and featured NGC and Messier galaxies culled from the Night Sky Observers Guide.

What can you see through an un-mounted 60mm mini-Borg with 24mm Panoptic and 13mm Nagler at 2000m under clear and dark sky?

I’ve recently purchased a ‘take me anywhere’ ‘scope. At 60mm aperture and f5.4 the OTA comes in a 10” long when assembled.

This was a short session tonight. I took the opportunity catch a break in the clouds and went up to The Gradbach Observing site.

A late start saw me hiding in the forest from the cold north wind. A few clouds passed through...

Here are the results of three sessions, a late morning and a couple of early evenings at the beginning and end of an 11 day holiday...

Over a long weekend 14th-17th October, I travelled down to Devon along with Mike C, Peter H, Bill , and Nick W-V to stay with Graham G.

This was a reasonable session with intermittent misty clouds, the NELM down to 6 and a bit. A welcome outing!

The Elan Valley complex of reservoirs can be found ~ 40 kms east of Aberystwyth and 4 mls SW of Rhayader.

From Friday 16th to Monday 19th July it was perfectly clear all night for 4 nights.

More than 4 hours of the best transparent conditions Llyn Brenig (North Wales) has to offer. NELM 6.5+! The Milky Way was clearly visible...

An observing session was held the previous night at Gradbach Hill

Arrived 12:00. Scope assembled in the evening.

Location: Llyn Brenig Duration: 17:30 – 00:30 Conditions: Clear with a low of -7.5 Celsius. Uncertain of the road conditions, Don and I...

Scope assembled in the evening. Surprise, surprise a clear sky, a brief session hidden behind the wall of the swimming pool revealed mag. 6

Paul Clark and myself paid a visit to Llyn B, on Sunday 2nd March.

First off, some ‘easy’ globular clusters in M31.

Whilst the others were in the flesh spots of Lower Withington I braved the elements at Llyn Brenig.

Don Utton, Paul Clark and myself went to Llyn Brenig on Thursday night, 5th Dec.

Desperation had set in. A hint of a few hours on Tuesday was enough to brave the conditions.