Another set of clear nights under very pleasant temperatures for the time of the year.

I managed to get +/- 12 hours on two targets. The first one is the interacting pair of galaxies NGC 4656 & NGC 4631. The second one is the very faint NGC 4236 – of the bigger galaxies (in angular size) in the Northern Hemisphere, but extremely faint so it’s often overlooked.

I’m very happy with both images as they fit nice in the field of view of my scope and even if I’m still not perfectly collimated, the end result is just fine.

Clouds are back now and the moon is up, so it’s time for a little break I guess.

I had a couple clear nights in a row but the weather behaved very unpredictable with a mixture of high and low clouds coming and going and some fogg to top it off.

Over three nights I struggled with collimation and by the time I had it right my subs got plagued by windy conditions. In the end I managed to get about 5 hours on the Leo Triplet and I was really surprised by how well it came out. This shows again it’s always worth setting up, worst case you learn something about the sky conditions.

It’s getting a bit warmer now so let’s see what that means for imaging conditions in the next few weeks.