firstlight
08-11-2007, 11:02 PM
Hi All,
Anne-Louise, the boys and I have just spent a week up on Mt Tamborine to try an get a good western sky for this comet.
Needless to say it was completely clouded out for almost the entire time. The only time we saw a sunset, and later, Scorpius was on Sunday the 4th. Having never set up an equatorial anywhere other than home, I had no idea if the dodgy compass I was using was anywhere near the south... it wasn't.
Huge tracking problems, flocks of mosquitos, and the thought that I should be upstairs helping Anne-Louise putting the boys to bed. I also was trying to dodge clouds still streaming from the west.
Here is my best effort. I only managed to grab 4 frames before the cloud swallowed the region, still I can use averted imagination on the tiff to see a hint of tail passing to the edge of the frame past Al Niyat.
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Anne-Louise, the boys and I have just spent a week up on Mt Tamborine to try an get a good western sky for this comet.
Needless to say it was completely clouded out for almost the entire time. The only time we saw a sunset, and later, Scorpius was on Sunday the 4th. Having never set up an equatorial anywhere other than home, I had no idea if the dodgy compass I was using was anywhere near the south... it wasn't.
Huge tracking problems, flocks of mosquitos, and the thought that I should be upstairs helping Anne-Louise putting the boys to bed. I also was trying to dodge clouds still streaming from the west.
Here is my best effort. I only managed to grab 4 frames before the cloud swallowed the region, still I can use averted imagination on the tiff to see a hint of tail passing to the edge of the frame past Al Niyat.
34414