The Roaming NLC Hunter

[markt]

I wont be online for a couple of days now, maybe a little bit on thursday night and then offline again till Sunday aft.

Myself and a mate are taking advantage of this good weather and are going astro camping in the Brecon Beacons - the whole astro rig is coming with us - scopes, mounts, cameras etc - in pursuit of dark skies and good sights.

I return from there thursday aft before departing again friday morning with some other mates for a weekend of 'beer camping' in the Forest of Dean. Health and safety dictates the astro rig wont be coming there with me, but the camera and tripod will.

Needless to say if I see any NLC whilst on my travels in either location i'll make sure I get some pics of them...

[Jay]

Ahhhh the Brecon beacons, i feel home sick now (born in merthyr tydfill and lived nr aberdare which isnt to far from the Brecon beacons, they were my childhood playground, now I have blocks of flats as a view and chav ridden Eastleigh to call home!
Hope you have a nice break and the good weather holds up for you, hopefully there will be some NLC, I would imagine they would look great from the Brecons.

[markt]

Ok guys, no NLCs visible on my travels, but here are a few astro pics I managed to snap...

ISS rising over the SW horizon


Camera gets swung around to catch ISS going from Zenith to NW horizon and I bag a meteor on one of the frames!


All the rest of these are through my scope - a 5" Meade refractor, 30 sec exposure iso 800

M13


M92


M57


M81/82


The Double Cluster (well part of it...)


And last but not least, the camp...



I may do bit more work on the images yet, but they're straight out of the camera. I did multiple shots of all targets so I can run them through deepsky stacker. That's on my list of things to do...

Enjoy