Thought I'd better make the most of the night just gone as I don't think that the cloud gods are due to smile on me tonight!
This is an image of 23, 210 secs each, subs (also darks & flats) taken with a 135mm lens and my Kenko 'Halpha' filter, mounted on my beloved AstroTrac. IC1848, known as the Soul nebula, is to the left and IC1805, the Heart, to the right.
While my timer remote was taking the exposures, I had my first view of M31 for the 'new season' through my 10X50 binoculars. Granted M31 was low in a twilight sky, viewed from the middle of a city, but I can appreciate newcomers who feel disappointed by this 'smudge' after seeing such glossy images of it in magazines & on the web.
Far more impressive in the still of the night was the King of planets, Jupiter. While my AT was imaging the Heart & Soul, I set up my second tripod & took the snap below with my compact Canon digital. I think the view from my garden looks quite good (especially as the image is cropped so as not to show the 10ft-tall weeds)!
Just a short time ago I had a last look out to see the crescent Moon with Venus lower down and to the right (south). The sky was far too bright by this time for me to have any hope of picking out Mars.
Definitely another very enjoyable night.
Heart and Soul nebulae.
Jupiter rising in the southeast (as seen from my back garden & taken at around 2am).