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Great nights observing on the south coast NSW last night ( best this year so far ) seeing was really good , nice and stable , low Jetstream
Rolled out the 12” Goto dob from the garage and levelled up at 6.00pm, 2 star alignment took 5 minutes and up and running by 8.00pm. Finished up around 11pm
Used a variety of my Televue eye pieces with a Paracorr type 2 coma corrector on a number of objects including the following -
NGC 5139 Omega Centauri globular cluster
M42 Orion Nebula ( could just resolve trap E and F )
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula
IC 2602 Southern Pleiades cluster
NGC 2808 globular cluster
NGC 4590 globular cluster
NGC 3532 Wishing well cluster
NGC 4755 Jewel Box
NGC 5128 Centaurus A Galaxy
Used the following eye pieces
Ethos 21mm ( the hand grenade )
Ethos 13mm
Delos 17.3mm
Panoptic 24mm
Panoptic 27mm
Astronomik UHC filters
Great night !!
Forecast looks ordinary for the next week , some rain around and cloudy nights
Waiting in anticipation to get a couple of clear nights for some imaging under Bortle 3 skies
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