The past 12 hours have thrown up some siriusly good seeing in inner Melbourne:
1) Last night, the pup (Sirius B) was an easy split around 8:30pm, possibly clearer than I've ever seen it. Eyepieces used were a Pentax XW 7, and a Pentax XF 8.5 + T-V 2x barlow
OK, then the cloud rolled in for the evening so I retired to watch Shrek with the kids for the nth time...
2) But this morning around 6:30am, I had the best view of Jupiter I've had this year. Every 30 seconds or so the image would magically clarify & it would look like one of Bird's photos. Eyepiece again a Pentax XW 7 (no time to try other eyepieces, since I had to get ready for work
).
Scope used was a 14" F/4.6 dob on an equatorial platform.
Phil