Fabulous viewing conditions in Perth tonight

[marki]

Crikey!!! CALM have set the place on fire...I just pointed my camera straight at the sun and took a pic to post but you can't see it :eyepop:. Smoke everywhere, I feel I am going to choke.

Mark

[MikeyB]

100% agree and yet DoE says it's within national guidelines.:confused2: I've closed up the whole house to try and keep the smell out, but my eyes are still burning - it's like a thick, dirty fog here.

It's a shame about the astronomy prospects, with the moon at last becoming favourable again in the evenings. The seeing was great for Saturn this morning, too. Ah well, do me good to have an early night tonight, I suppose!

[JD2439975]

So this is within national guidelines is it? (see attached image)

Expecting our boys to set the world on fire any day soon too, after 6 months of solid cloud it would be wrong to actually see the sky. :mad2:

[mswhin63]

I am still suffering from the effects, cough cough.

My son got me out yesterday morning a said have a look at the moon. Turns out it was the sun as though looking through a filter.

[TrevorW]

Say they burn off now so fires next summer won't be so bad so why not burn off before summer

[pgc hunter]

I know all too well how youse feel. We were suffering all autumn here with this crap, and it truly is frustrating. What really riles me is that the Defartment of Slaughter-our-clear-nights and Embers (DSE) seem to choose the warmest, clearest days for their burnoffs, rather than dull cloudy ones :mad2: Hopefully down here we are free until next spring when they start again :rolleyes:

[mswhin63]

All-be-it was again really bad still squeezing the smoke out of my lungs, my cousin explained the reasons that Autumn is the best time for burning off. Used to do burn offs (retired now)
Fire help stimulate fresh growth ready for late autumn and winter germination.
Also spring dries quickly and could flare up easily.
Autumn is more humid

Burning off in Autumn I am afraid is necessary.

Still at least can be some sort or prediction.