Its happened AGAIN!!!

[azagil]

My new cam arrived last yesterday arvo.....(Imaging source DBK21AU618 (for planetary/Lunar imaging))
So I snuck out of work a bit early to set it up, install drivers and make sure it all worked as I couldnt wait to set it up and use it later on for a moon or jupiter shoot. I thought it was going to be great.....it was clear out, no breeze, the day was cooling off nicely. To pass the time I decided to go for a run at 8pm while the last of the sun was setting...........and thats where my excitment went to heart break....... As I left my front door and looked up to the skys all I could see was a massive cloud system covering the sky as far as I could see.....even now some 12hrs later it is still blanketing the sky as if trying to taunght me!!!! hoping it wont be long and I will be out playing like a kid with a new bike!!!:shrug:

[FlashDrive]

Yes indeedy ... happens quite a bit ...doesn't it. :shrug:
You buy some new gear ...your ready to go....clouds ' roll ' in to spoil it . :(

Flash ..!!

[azagil]

yes its always the way....I bet if I was to promises the misses I would spend a night in with her watching movies it would clear right up!! :-) lol

[Pinwheel]

I've had a similar problem the last 3 nights, crystal clear night & not a cloud HOWEVER the bloody wind, at lest 20 knots. ahgghhhhh! Wind just shake the setup so much viewing is hopeless.

[azagil]

Doug, Where abouts in the wimmera are you? I grew up in the wimmera and my family still lives there....been wanting to head to the grampians for a nights viewing, would be good up on top there I think!!

[Pinwheel]

I,m on 20 acres outside a small wheat & sheep town called "MARNOO". I'm away from light pollution & my nearest neighbors are 3 km away.

[FlashDrive]

Now that's what I call ' heaven ' ...!! ;)

[azagil]

lol, I know the area well, I grew up in stawell, Played football for navarre and spent most of my spare time either working on a farm at Bulgana and joel joel or shooting on a family friends property at paradise (near st Arnaud) Great skys all around you!!!

[Varangian]

Why do you cut the heads of your beer? :shrug:

[Pinwheel]

Just wish this wind would go away, trying to view 2012-c lemmon, just impossible with wind shake.

[Pinwheel]

? :confused2:

[azagil]

I think he was refering to you signature................. "severed"

[Pinwheel]

:rofl::D I never noticed that............:rofl:

[Varangian]

I sent you a pm:)

I once knew a guy with a bushy mo who used to scoop the head from his beer with a teaspoon so he didn't get the froth on it...

[Pinwheel]

All fixed now, that's spell check for you....lol

[Poita]

I used to setup inside an empty water tank during the drought. Kept the wind away :)

[Pinwheel]

I had thought of buying a large plastic 20,000 lt tank & converting it into a observatory. One day..

[Poita]

Find an old rusted tank and just use the walls as a wind-break. It makes a huge difference on those windy nights.

[LewisM]

Exactly. It get's windy at my joint - I set up a heavy wool blanket on a simple wooden frame, and voila - no wind.

My Takahashi should arrive by the end of the week, so the forcast is showers, storms and cloud.

[cybereye]

Hopefully that weather won't extend south of the Brisbane River!!!