From 9:00pm to 11:00pm. Not as clear as the forecast led me to hope. Slow moving extensive thin clouds and an almost full moon, and fatter than usual too. Add that to a gang of scouts from Rotherham, though a good friendly group, spending the weekend there. Not that this was bad, but they had two fires burning, one on the field and the other the northern side of the nearest fence to us almost directly upwind of the dome.
This part of the gang had lots of good fireworks to let off. So, we gave the night over to the scouts and had tea and cakes with them. The firewood came from pulling down the old barbecue place near the building. You can burn all this timber if you return the area to what it was before, was the authority they'd been given. No likelihood of that, but the big fire was in the reserve rather than the centre's field. Dave and Rhys were there too, we saw the Moon (!) and a couple of other items through the thin cloud, only one of the scouts came in to take a look, though Dave had invited them all. A good campfire and lots of fireworks clearly a greater attraction. M42 looked well though between clouds, unfortunately the close-by Moon spoiled it somewhat.
Brian