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Old 26-08-2012, 11:38 AM
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Well it's been 46 days here in Adelaide since my last fix and I've almost forgotten how to do astrophotography. It's been clouds-rain-moon-clouds-clouds-rain-clouds. Geez!! Suddenly it looks like a clear patch tonight and guess what... the moons directly overhead. Arghhh! Looks like I'll have to do the moon with a webcam which is not so bad I guess. Might chuck a HA filter on it instead of the baader moon filter to see if there's any difference. Decided to work out the best dark nights in Adelaide from now to the end of next year with the moon set by about 6-7pm and rising after 5am and produced a text file with the date format yr/mth/day and estimated when I could possibly pull and all nighter to get data. I'm sure there is a list somewhere on the web specifically targeting dark nights for astrophotography but I couldn't easily find it so here's mine.
If you've got one for your site let's see it.
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Stephen


* Moon rise at 5am (all nighter)
### min 2-4 hrs obs


###20120909-18
*20120915

###20121008-17
*20121014

###20121107-16
*20121113

###20121207-16
*20121213

###20130107-16
*20130111

###20130205-14
*20130209

###20130306-15
*20130310

###20130405-14
*20130409

###20130504-13
*20130509

###20130603-12
*20130607

###20130702-11
*20130706

###20130731-0808
*20130805

###20130829-0907
*20130904

###20130928-1007
*20131004

###20131027-1106
*20131103

###20131126-1206
*20131203
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Old 30-08-2012, 09:31 PM
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Well it's been 46 days here in Adelaide since my last fix and I've almost forgotten how to do astrophotography. It's been clouds-rain-moon-clouds-clouds-rain-clouds. Geez!! Suddenly it looks like a clear patch tonight and guess what... the moons directly overhead. Arghhh! Looks like I'll have to do the moon with a webcam which is not so bad I guess. Might chuck a HA filter on it instead of the baader moon filter to see if there's any difference. Decided to work out the best dark nights in Adelaide from now to the end of next year with the moon set by about 6-7pm and rising after 5am and produced a text file with the date format yr/mth/day and estimated when I could possibly pull and all nighter to get data. I'm sure there is a list somewhere on the web specifically targeting dark nights for astrophotography but I couldn't easily find it so here's mine.
If you've got one for your site let's see it.
Cheers
Stephen
Hi Stephen, I live in Adelaide too, (The home of the eternal long cloud, wind, rain, and or high moon, or so it seems). It has been so long, I have forgotten where I have stored all my equipment. I also use a list of darkest hours, which I obtain from The Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers, as follows-

Darkest Hours Planner
This program calculates when the darkest hours will be.
http://dvaa.org/php/DarkCal.php

It can give you a list for which ever co-ordinates you enter, for between 1 month and up to 12 months.

Cheers, Y/O (YogieOne)
(from the Northern Suburbs)

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Old 31-08-2012, 08:26 AM
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Thanks Paul
New there had to be a calculator somewhere on the web.
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