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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.