Finally a clear sky, but windy and cold

Nice crystal clear blue sky, but with a high temp of 42f and rather breezy, had to set up out of the wind so only had a couple hours between the trees to broadcast on NSN.

Cold, thin clouds and breezy

Not the best weather today, but I had a day off and had to take advantage of it.  Continuous thin clouds didn't make it easy to get a good image, plus trees in the way now that the sun doesn't get so high in the sky anymore.  I shot 1200 frames instead of the usual 500 just to be sure I could get enough useable frames to stack and reduce the noise somewhat, when I knew it'd be bad with the thin clouds mucking things up for me.

Almost forgot what to do.....

Been a while since I got the scope out, been working full time again and too tired to setup after work, so had to wait for a clear sunny day on a weekend.  Too bad it wasn't clear today, but clearer than I've had in the last couple months, still had to shoot through thin clouds and really variable seeing, but got a decent image out of the effort, along with a nice broadcast on nightskiesnetwork.com with visits by Norm, Hal, and the Last Ecvarian, aka Jim, plus numerous lurkers and guests, so it was a fun afternoon. All pics are from the single full disc capture, the zoomed shots are just cropped from the original high resolution image.