bloodhound31
18-11-2009, 05:06 AM
It was clear all night tonight...was....
I went out to clear skies around 10:30pm, set up the scope, dragged all the computer gear out to the obs, aligned, focused and shot one x ten minute exposure on the Pleiades before the orange cloud moved in, blanketing Canberra in a uniform wash of soupy air.
I slept in the obs until 2am, whereupon I hopped in the ute and drove out to meet Octane at Lake George to catch the Leonid meteor shower. Alas, the blanket extended well over the area and we got a couple of peeks at a star and that was it.
The BOM radar doesn't pick up cloud unless it's raining....:mad2:
So here's that single sub of ten minutes. I already had my flats, flat darks and 20 minute darks loaded into MaxIm from the last shoot, so I calibrated it with them to see what it would do. I couldn't get all of M45 in the ED120mm FOV, so I just picked one star with a bit of nebulosity around it. Turned out alright I suppose...
Baz.
I went out to clear skies around 10:30pm, set up the scope, dragged all the computer gear out to the obs, aligned, focused and shot one x ten minute exposure on the Pleiades before the orange cloud moved in, blanketing Canberra in a uniform wash of soupy air.
I slept in the obs until 2am, whereupon I hopped in the ute and drove out to meet Octane at Lake George to catch the Leonid meteor shower. Alas, the blanket extended well over the area and we got a couple of peeks at a star and that was it.
The BOM radar doesn't pick up cloud unless it's raining....:mad2:
So here's that single sub of ten minutes. I already had my flats, flat darks and 20 minute darks loaded into MaxIm from the last shoot, so I calibrated it with them to see what it would do. I couldn't get all of M45 in the ED120mm FOV, so I just picked one star with a bit of nebulosity around it. Turned out alright I suppose...
Baz.