Day: 24 June 2026

22:50 – 03:05

I setup with the 150 Esprit in the dome and both the Seestar S30 Pro and the S50.

I set about using the S30 Pro to capture M16 and M17 in a single frame. This was really my first time using the smart scope in earnest.

Meanwhile I setup the 150 Esprit to capture M13.

I stayed with this until the light started to increase and then went to bed. The final unprocessed image straight from the S30 Pro is below.

Once I had processed using PixInsight from the S30 Pro it looked so much better.

On the S50 I took some data on IC 1284.

22:42 – 23:32

I’m out with the 22″ Obsession again doing visual. The images below are from the Moon Globe HD app on my iPhone, not focal this time. I have included as an aid to what I saw visually.

Time – 22:42 / Object – Moon / Eyepiece – 31mm Nagler

• Mare Imbrium looks very clear and so large

• I could see huge Plato crater and Archemedeis to the top. I could make out 3 small craters, Bancroft, Beer and Feuillee before getting to Timocharis near the terminator.

• I could just make out Heinrich and then Pytheis at the terminator 

• Huge Clavius to the top
• I then switched eyepieces

Time – 23:15 / Object – Moon / Eyepiece – 13mm Ethos

• ⁃ Beer & Feuillee stand out so much more. Also Montes Archimedes is very prominent and the 3 main ranges. We are in the middle of a heatwave with a very unusual heat dome sitting over my part of England. This is causing the air to be very still and thus the seeing is astonishing. The Moon is still not wobbling at all.