The following night I tried it with a colour imaging system: a Sony mirrorless camera on the back of my 80mm refractor.
This is more convenient as it all runs off a battery - I don't need a laptop nor a mains cable.

This comet is now around 10th magnitude, moving between the constellations of Auriga and Perseus, so it's well-placed in the evening sky. It's already showing a tail, and will be brightening over the next few months - potentially to binocular visibility...

I took advantage of the clear-ish sky last night to catch up with a couple of comets I've been following for a few weeks, and add a "new" one to my collection. I was using an old Starlight Xpress Mx716 mono CCD camera on the back of my C8 (with a Meade focal-reducer). Without any LPR filter fitted, ...

I've just noticed that I first registered on this Forum in October 2009, when we set it up (before that we had a rather clunky YahooGroup ). Glad to see that it's still thriving - and not yet been supplanted by other social media outlets! And a big thanks to Carl for keeping it running all that time...

At the start of next month Professor Chris is presenting a couple of lectures at the Alder Observatory , Chicago. “A Universe of Surprises,” Chris and Dr. Laura Trouille will share stories of unexpected discoveries that Zooniverse community have made over the years. Such as exotic planets around dis...

Now it's tracking through Andromeda, and last night was very close to Mirach:

Bear in mind that the Transit starts in the early afternoon, when the Sun is only 18 degrees above the Southern horizon.
And by mid-Transit around 3:30pm it will be down to 5 degrees, so you'll need to be somewhere with a very good horizon to the SW.

Another night, another comet! This one was discovered in 2005 by prolific comet-spotter Rob McNaught (see my article in this month's Bolton Astronomer ). Last month I caught it close to C/2018 N2 in Aries , but now it's moved into Perseus , where it will remain for a few weeks. At last night's Works...

Last night I took advantage of a short spell of clear sky between all the rain-clouds. After its conjunction with 260P last month, 2018 N2 has moved in the constellation of Triangulum , so I had to wait until after 9:30 before it cleared the tree-line. By this time some clouds were coming over, but ...

Last night I had another go, this time using my Sony NEX5R camera on my 80ED refractor: