I set everything up ready last night, but the forecast was wrong and there was hardly a break in the clouds. The best I managed was a 2 star alignment and that was only because I could get Arcturus through the coulds with a 1 second exposure. I didn’t get any images with the SPC900 but I did mount the Fuji S9500 piggy style and got some wide angle shots of Jupiter and the Deneb area.

This image is Jupiter in centre with Antares the lower of five bright stars below. The area also encompasses M80 and M4 but the sky is too light to see them although M80 is just visible if I tweak the levels in Photoshop.

You can see from the orange sky how bad the light polution and high clouds were.

The camera was set to 30 second exposure at F5, ISO800.

 The star to the right of Jupiter is not a moon as I first thought, but Omega Ophiuchi, a magnitude 4.43 star.

The image was taken at 08-08-2007 22:17BST