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Old 25-05-2018, 08:12 AM
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East coast seeing

Two nights of excellent seeing if the skies are clear around Sydney tonight and Saturday. Moon is up but might be well worth getting that Ha filter out and hammer something at long FL.
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Old 25-05-2018, 08:15 AM
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nice one marc, go long.

i'm just happy there will be no clouds around (melb) - i've had camera woes for months which i've sorted so - going for first light on the new system (apo). will have to probably be an instant gratification object
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Old 25-05-2018, 01:59 PM
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Slowly clearing up from the SE. Started setting up the C11 with an Ha filter now. Fingers crossed.
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Old 25-05-2018, 02:19 PM
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Cloud and Jetstream forecast looks the best it has for a long time for Warragul. Lovely sunny day too and no burnoffs.
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Old 25-05-2018, 07:08 PM
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Smoke in Canberra. Plus a howling moon...
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Old 25-05-2018, 07:32 PM
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Yes I saw that Marc its ok here just patchy cloud but nice and steady
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Old 25-05-2018, 07:36 PM
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clouded in Newcloudland......
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Old 25-05-2018, 11:07 PM
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It's ok here, all clear and great seeing, no wind but the dew is something else... need a mop.
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Old 26-05-2018, 12:21 AM
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Clear and calm down here , with excellent seeing, 8/9 - 10. Some of the best conditions I've had the pleasure to observe and image in and no dew because I'm sandwiched between 2 brick houses that act as great heat sinks.
Jupiter looked great with the Red Spot rotating into view and Europa re-appearing from occultation.
Have had quite a few nights of good seeing this past few weeks and next evening should be pretty good too from what CFNs is showing for the jetstream.
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Old 26-05-2018, 01:32 AM
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Still imaging right now. It's been very good but a very humid night in the west. The moon's going down now so it's getting darker. Tomorrow seeing won't be as good as tonight but still ok first half of the evening I reckon, degrading fast in second half.
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Old 26-05-2018, 02:38 AM
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never seen the planets so steady. jupiter looked so good visually. too bad i couldn't image it!!!!!!!!
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Old 26-05-2018, 03:58 AM
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I have packed it in for tonight. Despite the forecast I was messing around with some testing of SGP control of the new Celestron PWI laptop direct connect CGX software, dodging some drifting thin cloud, waiting for the Moon to set, and sure enough at Moon set the cloud rolled back in from Newcastle and shut me down. Who said the next few night's were looking good? I could see the cloud hanging over Newcastle and figured Houghy must have been responsible.
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Old 26-05-2018, 07:07 AM
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Had the Mewlon 250 our for the steady skies in Melbourne and
Viewing at 566x with binoviewers, 1.7x GPC and 9mm NLV every 15s it would crisp up for half a second and details would pop before fuzzing up again.

I had planned on getting up at 3am for Mars but I slept in until 7:30
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Old 26-05-2018, 09:37 AM
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Made a full night of it. Went to bed around 5:30. Lots of data to go through. Still at it tonight. Left everything set up.
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Old 26-05-2018, 02:18 PM
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I’d loved to have stayed up all night but some of us have to work at 8:30 on a Saturday
I did capture data all night though
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Old 26-05-2018, 03:37 PM
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Extensive Hazard reductions around Sydney today.... thick haze all around and visible flakes of ash falling...
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Old 26-05-2018, 05:07 PM
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I had a pretty decent night observing near Yass last night with an 18"f5.6. Able to get short periods of steady images with a 7mm Nagler (365x) on the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn. Fantastic detail.


I discovered life on the Moon I observed a shadow of a mountain ridge that looked just like a stegosaurus.

The mirror fogged up before Mars was high up. Even low down, could see large polar cap and some surface detail at 70X on Mars. So I packed up, drove back in fog, that in patches was very thick. Had to slow right down to 40kph at some points due to low visibility.

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Old 26-05-2018, 05:36 PM
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Many areas were fogged up this morning, luckily not in the burbs. Tonight there's a lot of smoke in the air but it's still very steady up there, so imaging again Did 4h on the hourglass in M8 last night amongst other things.
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Old 26-05-2018, 07:58 PM
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Looks like the jetstream and clouds will be creeping up earlier than anticipated from looking at the latest forecast. It was good while it lasted.
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Old 26-05-2018, 11:24 PM
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Seeing was ok earlier this evening 7 - 10, but has gone off now, probably 5 - 10. Was that our quota of steady seeing for this season ! because I was hoping to get some time on Saturn and Mars later this evening.
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