Last weekend we went with a group of amateur-astronomers to the famous Kollase deepsky observing weekend. When you arrive at the hotel you only see this small sign.
After the 1st night the field is full with different kinds of telescopes. In the front is a Halpha-solar telescope, with this you can see prominences on the Sun.
Saturday is the ATM (Amateur-telescope-making) day.....after a die-hard observing night there's always a lot of stuff that needs repair....
We decided to stay 1 day longer. This was very smart, because that night was the one with the best seeing conditions. On this picture the telescopes (from left to right Meade 12" Lightbridge dobsonian, Skywatcher 200mmF5 Newtonian reflector in HEQ5pro mount, my telescope, and a GSO 200mmF6 Dobson. We observed many objects, the nicest ones were the Veil nebula west, galaxies Maffei 1 & NGC1023, and moon IO passing over Jupiter.
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