Well, the clouds rolled in just after we arrived – then after about 1/2hr the wind did a 180 and the clouds rolled back out the way they came – and suddenly it was so bright I thought I should have brought a book to read by the moonlight.

I stayed with viewing planets, the moon, and star clusters – sky was too washed out for anything else. We got a chance to watch a moon rising from behind Jupiter (at first I thought it was just distortion – but it was too consistent and growing, so I called Mike over to look) and the rings of Saturn were reasonably clear too. Looking through Mike’s bino viewer at the craters and mountain ranges on the moon was also a treat – there were some interesting sites along the shadow line.

I only took a few images – mainly of Saturn and Jupiter. I have processed the Jupiter sequence and will get to the others later. Unfortunately I don’t have the mount for attaching my camera to a barlow yet so my images of planets tend to be lacking detail.