After a wild week of rain and wind today turned out to be a beautiful day of glorious sunshine and clear skies in the middle of, yet more to come, bad weather.
The clarity and clearness of the air and the blueness of the sky really took my breath away during the course of the day, some of the best I had seen in a long time, which gave me hopes of an excellent night with good transparency but sadly that was not to be.
Skies were promising at first and some fine viewing was to be had but after 30 minutes there were pieces of cloud drifting by, which was fine as large portions of the sky were visible, but then thick haze started to develop spoiling the night and bringing it to an end.
Location = Carren Rock
Equipment = EQ6 Pro and Orion 10"
Seeing = 2
Trans = 2
Start Time = 19:38
The observations for the night are as follows:
Almach = My good old favourite that never stops wowing me. Looking great, as usual, with strong colour and resolving beautifully in the 8mm Hyperion.
M57 = A very good view, strong structure and good detail.
M27 = Another fine view with, again, strong structure and nice contrast.
NGC 1245 = Conditions were poor by this stage so the view was not good and could hardly see the open cluster.
M82 = A fine view with nice detail runing through the disk of the galaxy.
Finish = 20:45
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