A night at Tebbutt Observatory

[RichardJ]

I had a lovely time on Saturday night showing people the night sky at Tebbutt Observatory at Windsor. There were also other amateurs with their scopes. The Hawkesbury Historical Society had a back to Tebbutt night at the observatory. The first one since the end of lockdown. We were treated with a lovely clear sky and got to tour through the observatory. So much history.

Some shots I took. I would love to go back when there are less lights on and get shots of the observatory and the milky way.

RichardJ :)

[John W]

A good report Richard.

Cheers, John W.

[ahmed_haider]

Thanks Richard.


I was there too with my 12 inch dob :)
It was a nice event, the free coffee and excellent muffins/cakes other accompaniments made up for all the work setting up my big scope :)



Cheers
Ahmed

[strongmanmike]

Can only imagine how dark the skies would have been back when Tebbutt was using it...:)...likely Bortle 1

Mike

[ahmed_haider]

One can dream :)
And this is a specially nice dream for those of us living under the LP dome of big cities.

Although I doubt a Skywatcher Synscan 300p dobsonian would be available in Tebbut's time :D