Morning All,
I was lucky, got a gap in the clouds from about 2 am till 4 am. When I say 'gap' I mean I got gaps and lots of haze but apparently I was about the only astronomer to have gaps and get pix in NZ.
Took about 45 frames with the DSLR with 420mm telephoto mounted on the 80 Achro on a tripod. (Expected rain etc so did not have the 10" up to go, this was def 'Grab & Go'
).
Six pics are over on
www.astrobin.com under my ZeroID name if you want to see. Very hazy up high, multiple cloud layers, gusty winds so very little detail in the shots but some nice colouration. Most of the latter ones were shot through thin fast cloud.
Going to have a good look at the rest tonight and see if anything more can be rescued.
Rain for the rest of the week so not much else to do.
But at least I saw and photographed it which is more than most were able to doover here.
And beginning to get the hang of the astrobin site, very good. Thanks Salvatore.
