Bad weather

[Dazza81]

Is it just me or has anybody else been struggling to see any stars lately from all the clouds? I'm in Sydney and it seems like weeks since I had a good night time view. Its quite frustrating :mad2:

[OzStarGazer]

I bought my scope last year around this time of the year and I remember I was so impressed. And now I find myself in a position similar to yours too.

[Steffen]

I saw Canopus and Rigel briefly during a break between storms yesterday. At least I know they're still there :lol:

I bought a rather awesome tripod recently and received it just when the East coast perma-storm started. So there...

Cheers
Steffen.

[Dazza81]

Well lets hope the clouds clear soon so we can all get out there and see more! My scope is quickly accumulating dust

[speach]

Yep same here only time it's been moderately clear is when the moon is full.

[AstralTraveller]

It's summer. Relax. The days are long and the night's short; and even if it is clear there is heat haze. Let it get it out of it's system, let the lawns recover (just not too much) and hope for a nice clear autumn. As Steffen said, the stars are still there. After 40 years I've realised that astronomy isn't a sprint.

[CJ]

You're not alone!

[vlazg]

Try living in Darwin, everything put away with dessicant everywhere, nothing happening till the end of the wet, April - May :sadeyes:

[Dazza81]

Got a quick look last night as there were no clouds. Had a quick look at Pleiades - was very good

[N1]

+1

One of the reasons why summer is firmly in 4th place in my ranking of seasons.

[PSALM19.1]

:sadeyes: Yep...for at least 6 weeks I have had basically zero chance of seeing anything for any decent length of time here in Shellharbour...the only time I can remember the sky being good was at 2:30am one night when I was up watching the Wallabies play Ireland and thought I might pop outside...awesome, except I then had to watch the second half of the rugby and then it was too late to observe! I saw two stars last night...:lol:

[SimmoW]

"East Coast Perma Storm" - classic!

[codemonkey]

Seems like forever since I've been able to get any imaging done. Past two times I've seen a break in the weather I've had a hardware failure. Hopefully with my new Moonlite focuser on the way that's the last of those for a while and I'll be able to take advantage of the next clear run.

As for the seasons, I'm kind of out of luck here. Where I am as soon as it starts getting cooler the fog sets in... pretty much every winter night we have thick fog, then as it heats up the rains come in.

[ianB]

I'm on the Sunshine coast and know how you feel, been rubbish weather for observing :-(

[Dazza81]

Well the positive is that when u do get to view some stars / planets it really makes you appreciate it

[Camelopardalis]

...and how much they've moved since the last time we saw them :lol:

[Ric]

Hi Darren

I basically don't even bother in summer to get the scope.

Basically summer is storms, cloud and heat rising off the ground as well the viewing paddock is usually full of snakes as well on their evening hunt.

I restrict my viewing with the scope to Autumn, Winter and early Spring when the nights are cool and you get nice crisp viewing.

[Amaranthus]

I recently moved to Tassie, so was expecting clouds (and short nights). But the entire East Coast seems to be haunted this summer. I guess we just have to grab every opportunity we get - sleep be damned!

[ariefm71]

Summer is for astro shopping :)