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Old 15-07-2020, 07:34 PM
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Ya know it is clear and transparent when...

You look up out of your dome from your laptop and see cloud just about to pass over your imaging field ....only to step outside, look up..and realise it is the bloody Milky Way!

Phew....yeah baby

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Old 15-07-2020, 07:39 PM
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I shouldn’t have looked at my dark site skies... pretty much moonless and perfectly clear...

While stuck down in Melbourne... not so much
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Old 15-07-2020, 07:49 PM
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Happens to me too
I walk from indoors to the mount and look up ( the eyes haven’t quite adjusted) and you say to yourself bloody cloud , then hang on it’s the Milky Way you dope
Happens often
Thank goodness I’m not the only one that gets caught out
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Old 15-07-2020, 07:51 PM
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First World issue Mike
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Old 15-07-2020, 08:31 PM
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I have a skylight above my bed that I am replacing with heavy clear plastic so I can lift my eye patch and check or just lay on my back in the dark an look up...and in the new roll off there will be a bed so I can stay close to the action but I plan to hang the 80mm binos on some rope somehow to be able to lay there whilst I am waiting for photons and enjoy the visual...something like a pulley and counter weight so they don't strain my arms.
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Old 15-07-2020, 09:17 PM
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Oh yeah, been there, done that. What's worse is if you've had a bout of high level wispy cloud around, you start second guessing everything.

Very clear skies right now, but the wind is making the seeing bad.
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Old 16-07-2020, 12:19 AM
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Oh yeah, been there, done that. What's worse is if you've had a bout of high level wispy cloud around, you start second guessing everything.

Very clear skies right now, but the wind is making the seeing bad.
I have lost track of the number of nights that a high wispy stray cloud blocked my guide star and SGP alerted me and abended the run, trudged out in the cold to close the roof and the cloud was gone. DOH.
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Old 16-07-2020, 10:46 AM
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Been great here at the moment, last couple of nights very nice, good guiding.

Cannot see the Milky Way though, I'm in the city and my scope is in the country.

Gotta love brothers and remote control!
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Old 16-07-2020, 05:01 PM
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You look up out of your dome from your laptop and see cloud just about to pass over your imaging field ....only to step outside, look up..and realise it is the bloody Milky Way!

Phew....yeah baby

Mike
First time I saw the LMC at Wiruna, Joe Cauchi was next to me and I asked him what's that cloud. It's not moving.
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Old 18-07-2020, 06:28 PM
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"Clear sky"... except for the very high level wispy crap everywhere. sigh. Tonight is ruined.
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Old 18-07-2020, 07:39 PM
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Similar here also in NSW. Looks like this new moon period may be a total loss.
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