We still didn’t get a clear night since that last great session at the end of November. It seems Europe is in a constant state of cloudiness. I still decided to set up the EAA rig yesterday, despite a full moon, medium to high clouds and horrible seeing.

Galaxy season is around the corner and I spent most of the night looking at the faint smudges around Ursa Major, Coma Berenices, Leo and deep in the night even Virgo. You could probably spend a few lifetimes only observing all the galaxies in just that part of the sky.

Livestacking in such conditions is not really worth it but I still had a go and included a first look at M51.