The header picture is really not very good, heavily cropped, and if you enlarge it, it will be pixelated. But, as it stands, it is not too bad a picture of Orion. The belt is quite clear. This was about a quarter to 10 (21:45) on the 25th of Feb, over our neighbour’s house.
I took it about a week ago, just after starting my diary. I’m planning to only keep the diary for a month, after committing to do that at the U3A Stargazing group on 23 Feb.
Actually, keeping the log has, even after only 10 days, been quite enlightening. It has at least got me outside each evening, even if only to find that it is cloudy, and therefore observation has not been possible. That has been the case on at least three of the 10 nights. I say at least because there were two nights where I didn’t even check, so I don’t know if I could have observed.
Those nights where I have observed have been a little bit frustrating, as the moon has been very bright, and light pollution has also not helped.
Being able to observe, under admittedly non-ideal conditions, has at least enabled me to work on my setup. I’ll post a picture of that in the next couple of days. I had a couple of variations, and even now I’m still experimenting, and I suspect some limitations will remain, but it’s fun investigating.
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