Wooohoooo

[matt]

Geez....

I'm champin' at the bit to get home and set up for an all-niter with the ToUcam.

I'm really fired up for a big night.

I'm going to make a huge amount of free space on the hard drive the moment I walk through the front door.

And then it's open up every weather forecasting resource at my disposal and disappear completely into the night.

Waaahhhaaaaahhhaahhhaaaahhhaaaa!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rofl: :screwy:

[fringe_dweller]

look forward to some images in the morning Matt :thumbsup: here's hoping for 10 out 10 in every department of sky quality for ya :)

[leon]

Sounds like a good night ahead Matt, hope you enjoy and get what you are after.

Leon

[jjjnettie]

Windy, cloudy and with any luck rainy here tonight.
I hope you have a ball tonight Matt.

[iceman]

Scope is setup and cooling, skies are clear! Ready to roll.

[bloodhound31]

Looking like a great night here in Canberra isn't it Matt? Im heading out soon. Battery charging on the camera now!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!1

Baz.

P.S. After this week, before I go out there and align the scope, I have to work out which way is up!!

[ballaratdragons]

Looking really good here. All set up, tested, and ready to ROCK!

Look out Galaxies, here I come :lol:

[sheeny]

Even I'm getting out there tonight!:) It seems like ages since I last had the scope out... due to either clouds or commitments...

I'm looking forward to it... got the thermals on, and the freezer suit in the truck... just waiting till Lyn and Kiara get home for dinner then I'm off to Blue Hill! (I wish didn't have to drive to get away from the light!:mad2:)

BTW guys don't forget the ISS pass tonight about 18:30-18:35!

Al.

[dugnsuz]

Set up and ready to go for the first time in ages - weather looking good too!
Have a good night all...
Cheers
Doug

[leon]

Go Dougy,

Must be clear all over the country, I'm out already, well, going out again after I've been out, gee I'm confusing myself, you know what i mean :P

Leon :thumbsup:

[iceman]

It will be clear tonight! Nothing will stop that. Stars were twinkling like mad before, but look to be settling down.. maybe tonight will be a good night for a change.

I'll get Jupiter from 10:30-midnight (or so), get a few hours nap and up again for the Moon later!

[matt]

Good luck, Mike.

I think it's gonna be a goodun':thumbsup:

There's a nice high right over the top of us, the jet looks OK and transparency looks sweet.

[gaa_ian]

Hmmm .. all clouds here ATM :rolleyes:
Hopefully it will clear for tomorrow night as we have a public viewing night !
The Wet season is having it's last gasp, I am certainly looking forward to the months of clear skies that are just ahead of us :)

[matt]

Hope it all goes well for you, mate:D:thumbsup:

[seeker372011]

the dew is something terrible..had the hair drier out already

[iceman]

Great night so far!

- Collimation spot on
- Seeing above average
- My alignment spot on! Don't need to touch the paddle!
- Jovian moons dancing nearby

Only problem is the dew, as Narayan said.. making transparency worse..

[[1ponders]]

Good luck with it guys, it is absolute whingdingwhoopwhoopthbrrrrb:P here. :sad:

[gaa_ian]

Thanks Matt, forecast is for improved skies, though not ideal. :shrug:

[sheeny]

I guess that's a technical term...;):lol:

Al.

[iceman]

The temperature has stabilised here, about 10.5deg..

But the seeing appears to be deteriorating, and my mirrors must be dewing up cause transparency is dropping through the camera.

hmm might have to get a few hours nap before the moon.

[bloodhound31]

What an awesome night! I found the collimation on my secondary mirror was WAAAAAAYYYYY out!!! Pulled it completely out of the scope and used a set of verniers on it to get it level with the holder unit. Much better now! No-wonder I've been having focus issues!

Got better pics of lagoon, sombrero, triffid, swan, ghost o joops,eagle, carina, omega cluster and tarantula.:thumbsup:

Very happy. Might even go out again later!

Baz.:D

[davidpretorius]

fog stopped a very nice night here........i might rate it an 8/10............but the excitement will get the better of me!!!

lotsa dew like everyone else made the histogram only half filled.....

dont care, it was just great to be actually out there!

[matt]

This is for you blokes:D

Not as good as I expected but hey...

[seeker372011]

the laptop is soaking wet and I have wound up for the night

time will tell if anything worthwhile will emerge from this session but it was nice to be out again after a longish break

[davidpretorius]

i am pretty sure i have snavelled my best this season......here is first cab off the rank

[davidpretorius]

but hey, thats nice.

one at random? or maybe better to come?:thumbsup:

[matt]

Nice one, Davo:thumbsup:

Nah. That's as good as it gets here tonight.

Although here's another.

Joop and Ganymede

[Ric]

Hi all, just come in from a great night, bagged 4 nice DSO's but I'll leave them until tomorrow for processing.
Hope everyone else got a great night too.

Cheers

[iceman]

Great work Matt and Dave!

DP that's a ripper! Look at the scale! Definitely your best!

I've had a few hours sleep and i'm out again. Seeing is still pretty good!

Mars and the moon, here I come!

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike and matt,

Hey Matt, i have never done it before, but Mike uses layers to do a composite image of planets and moons.

that moon looks slightly out of whack in terms or rgb, but I reckon if you did a registax run based on the moon and then replaced the current moon, you would have a great image

[erick]

Glad to see that you guys have been having fun. I'm away from home with nothing but naked eye (specs assisted). I sat outside, up in the far northern suburbs of Sydney for 30 mins last night, around midnight. Sky was beautiful. Even with Sydney light pollution, I was thrilled with what I could see. Not much twinkling. Milky Way dust lanes detectable. Up again at 5:30 to look at the Moon. Lovely - wished I had my gear with me.

Looking forward to seeing all the images.

[iceman]

A little bit of Mars and a little bit of Jupiter.

The red channel of each from a random avi of each.

[matt]

Good work, Mike!

I haven't had a crack at Mars since that tiny little sneaky I captured a number of weeks ago.

He's getting bigger now. And interesting.

Plenty of detail there.

What was time of capture???

[matt]

Conditions looking even better tonight:D

Just hoping this cloud coming from the north and west doesn't arrive in the next six hours or so...

[davidpretorius]

yup looking good, should be more stable than last night...........but the fog did not lift until 2pm and then it is now back!

[davidpretorius]

great captures mike!