when fog is your friend

[strongmanmike]

Fog/low cloud has desended on Canberra and my sky out here at Wallaroo has gone dark as! The glow to the south east from Canberra, has all but dissapeared :) Woohoo, feels like I am at Wiruna or Coona :eyepop: niiice...look at all those staars....seeing is pretty good too...:thumbsup:

Mike

[strongmanmike]

Doh!!...now its here (cruddy low cloud) :doh: oh well, was pretty cool while it lasted :lol:...time to shut down....and go home I think :sadeyes:......

Mike

[Slawomir]

Maybe a few large industrial fans would help next time to keep low clouds at a distance? ;)

[Atmos]

I've been totally fogged out twice in two days, me no likey fog ;)

[RickS]

Looks like it was a very brief friendship, Mike :lol:

[strongmanmike]

It was bloody fog alright :rolleyes: descended in no time, the headlamp always reveals it well. The awesome dark sky before hand for the 30min of friendship, was a bit freaky though, perhaps a bit like the darkness that descends during a total solar eclipse? :lol: I actually hardly ever get fogged out at Wallaroo as I am perched up on a bit of a hill.

Mike

[SimmoW]

Damn Mike, you need to get one of those new fangled CMOS cameras, could have gotten say a hundred subs of 10 secs?:lol:

Bloody Mother Nature is teasing us a lot lately.

Methinks a crowd-funded amateur space based telescope is in order- I hear 'launch' costs for a SpaceX rocket are going dirt cheap, hahaha...

[strongmanmike]

It was good conditions to about 2:30am so I can't reeeally complain I guess, plus I finished my target exposure - 18hrs, longest yet with my AG12 and collected in three nights :)

Yes watching the latest Space X launch made me think IMAGINE if that had happened on an Apollo launch pad, how that iconic footage of a slow thunderous Saturn V rising from the pad, complete with disengaging hoses and ice falling off... would have been different :eyepop: Werner's brilliance and NASA's almost 5% of federal budget funding pit probably helped

Mike