More Moonshots…

Another beautifully clear evening in Kendal so I took my ‘scope across the busy road to Abbott Hall Park to take a look at Venus and the Moon. I did this with some concern because usually the Park attracts large numbers of Kendal’s most pathetic foul-mouthed, cider-swilling, hoodie-hidden, cheap-jewelry wearing gangsta-wannabe chavs like a dog [...]

Another great observing session…

Amazingly, after the Venusian Cloud Cover weather we’ve been suffering here recently, I managed another observing night here last night after getting back from work. It was actually a spectacularly clear sky, with a gorgeous First Quater-and-a-bit Moon shining high above Kendal, and Saturn glowing serenely beneath Leo… So, time to get my newly-repaired telescope out of [...]