i am excited

[lexisjay]

The Eclipse is about to start!!!!!:eyepop::D:thumbsup::rofl ::hi::lol:;):nerd::2thumbs::screwy: :rolleyes::lol2::earth:

[radu5er]

Exciting?? Are you kiddin'??

:P

[Dojo89]

park is too bright to see anything =[ damn park lights.... not meant to be on when theres no one there.

[davidpretorius]

whos coming to china for a solar eclipse in 2009?????

[wavelandscott]

Wow, it was pretty cool from here...I enjoyed it and did a little sketching to remember it by...

Cheers All!

[ballaratdragons]

I said 'yes' just to please everyone ;)

Are you kidding? It was fantastic!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[astroron]

Enjoyed the night immensely, after the first three quarters of an hour with clouds:mad2: it turned out great:thumbsup::stargaze::astron:
Did some deep sky observing while the eclipse was full

[madwayne]

All good here too. Except my far better half used the 400D last week and thought by placing the spare battery on top of the kitchen bench it would charge itself.

But wait there's more. The little V8, my Celestron 102SLT, AA battery butcher extrodinaire ran out of battery power at totallity. No worries I had spare AA's for such a crisis. Just got back in my comfy camping chair and the laptop blinked and then flashed and oh no flat battery in the laptop, with no spare (it was fully charged and it is the first time I had ran it flat). Not too worry I'll take the second half direct in the camera and make the best of a sticky situation.

Then the 400D coughed and spluttered. The battery in it went flat. All good till I put what I thought was the spare "fully charged" battery to find it had one bar of power. Wife arrived around this time and said she told me it was nearly flat and left it on the kitchen bench, but not in the battery charger.

So the second half of the eclipse was spent pondering what may have been.

Still had a fantastic night overlooking Botany Bay at Sandringham in Sydney's South. I had the 102SLT setup for photos and took the 10" Dob as I knew some guys from work would be there and they had plenty of good views in this through a 15mm 1.25" EP. Also plenty of locals came up and I had plenty of ooohs and aaahs from them as well, viewing in the Dob and looking over my shoulder as photos kept popping up on the laptop.

Thanks to all on IIS for your knowledge, enthusiasm and genuine passion for our hobby.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thum bsup::thumbsup:

[Ingo]

Hmm I'd be 19, probably won't have any money :lol:

[leon]

Gee I'm going to cope it for this, :whistle: but i can take it or leave it, :screwy: it really didn't do much for me, but sort of felt, well, I had better take some images.

Leon :thumbsup:

[mill]

What? someone said no in the poll.




Did you realy mean that Leon :P

[leon]

:scared3: Yep Mill it is I..... :whistle:

[erick]

Yep, that was fun! The skies were quite dark where I went to observe. During totality, I spotted M104 and Centaurus A with the 20x80 bins I had brought to observe the Moon!

[CoombellKid]

Me too! not often you can do that undera fullmoon lol, I was running
around the sky with my 20x80's picking off objects. A most enjoyable
event.

regards,CS