All Clear in SEQ

[jjjnettie]

It's another beautiful night here in South East Queensland.
This afternoons clouds have cleared leaving what could be a fantastic evening.
Tonight I'm going wide. Using the 20d and the little nifty fifty lens.
First off the mark will be some 10 minute subs of the LMC. I've never gone longer than a couple of minutes on this one. Very much looking forward to seeing the results of this first one.
Next will be Orion. I'm very keen to capture Barnards Loop.
Anyone else out amongst it tonight?

[xelasnave]

Yes later just visual.
alex

[jjjnettie]

It's too nice a night to stay indoors.

[matt]

I've got a 3am rise for work, so nothing for me tonight:(

But then I'm not working a weekend until early in the New Year....

Woohooo!!!!!!!

[jjjnettie]

You'll be making up for lost time then eh Matt.

[AlexN]

Sigh... The weekend skies are always clear when one has no camera :(

Enjoy yourself JJJ! :)

[DavidU]

A nice warm evening here in Melb, just full cloud cover.
jjj 20 10min subs would be nice on the LMC

[Jazza11]

Im in SEQ to and its still cloudy here

[jjjnettie]

Are you close to the coast Jazz?

[Jazza11]

Yep only like 10/20 mins away

[DavidTrap]

Was planning to visit a friend out your way Jeanette - but called it off due to the dodgy weather expected - dooh!

I'm itching to get my astrophotography setup sorted... On call next weekend - even worse!!!

Cheers
David T

[jjjnettie]

Not a cloud in sight here.

[Jazza11]

Lucky you i have had nothing but cloud for the last 4 weekends

[[1ponders]]

Beautiful one night....perfect the next.There's 3 of us here imaging out little hearts out. Woooo Hooo :D It's goin' ta be a looooong night :D

[jjjnettie]

I'm nearly finished my first run. 10x10 of the LMC.
Think I'll do a few more though.
How's class teacher?

[DavidU]

A few more ! Detail detail !!
Hows the guiding?

[jjjnettie]

Guiding is great. My drift align was the best I've had.
Just wish I'd set up for imaging through the ed80 instead of widefield now.
I've stopped the little lens right down and am shooting at ISO 400.
I hope that's what I should be doing.
I'm winging it here.

[dpastern]

I was just too tired to setup tonight :( Plus, I think my battery is stuffed, didn't want to upset myself and set everything up to only have it die after 2 slews. I know I should test it, so if it does muck up again, I can take the damn battery back to York Optical, but alas...gotta get myself motivated again.

Dave

[jjjnettie]

Here comes the cloud.

[dpastern]

cloud, cloud, go away, come back on another non imaging day. I even did an anti cloud dance for you Jeanette (wasn't a pretty site, thank God the forum doesn't have cam view rofl!!!).

Dave

[[1ponders]]

Yep we had a pretty good night Jeanette. A bit of cloud come in so we congregated in the kitchen for a while but hit it again for an hour or so before packing in