I was practically hyperventilating this past Monday morning, as
Astrospheric was actually showing good news ... a mostly clear night at the Bortle 4 club site, and a possible decent night two hours north at my Bortle 3 site (where it
has clouded over
on me a few times). A couple of hours later (and the lost hope of shooting M81 with a recently acquired Meade SN10), I took a chance and headed north with the FRA600. Upon arriving, I saw that the landowner had cleared a path off the road and through the snow for my Jeep. It was the first and (so far) only clear Moonless night I could shoot in March and, unfortunately, most Winter targets were west of the meridian. So I chose this target ...
and it stayed cloudless
throughout the night, albeit with so-so seeing.
Though I shot 400 minutes of Light frames, etc., after my WBP and a number of BLX / MS / ABE combinations, I didn't have high hopes. The Master Light just didn't look that promising.
Nevertheless, I looked forward to my Astro mentoring session with
@Terry Hancock at noon today. I am almost always learning something new and am not disappointed with today's result.
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