Good prospects tonight!

[chrisp9au]

Shadows lengthening, everything setup.

DVR set to record the NRL final and The Bill.

SkyTools observing lists printed.

I have a feeling tonight is going to be good!

Cheers :thumbsup:
Chris

[DavidU]

That looks like a nice spot Chris. Good luck for tonight.

[Alchemy]

Looking like a potentially good night...... When did you get the new scope ???

I have mine cooling as we speak, hoping the seeing is better than last night, so far so good.

Victoria FINALLY gets some good weather.

[chrisp9au]

Thanks David, yes it's a good spot, but we get a few planes heading down to Tullamarine, 75km away.

That's not a new scope Clive, that's your old 12" in it's new guise!
Works very nicely too, especially with the Argo Navis on it!

Cheers :thumbsup:
Chris

[peterl]

Looking good Chris..
Have a great cloud free night!!
Hope you can get through the list.. :)
Raining here..

Grumble.. grumble..

peter.

[renormalised]

Good hunting!!!:):)

Too cloudy up here:)

I have genealogical/family connections to Kyneton...my great-great grandparents are from the area....the McGrath's. Don't know if the family stills lives in the area, though.

[Alchemy]

Wow, you've done a treat with it :thumbsup:

[astronut]

Chris,
I think I have Melbourne's weather, would you like it back?

[The Mekon]

For NSW - it is all my fault. Last week has been cloudy every night where I am. Just as I had completed the modifications to fit my EQ6 to my existing pier, the sky has been consistently crappy each night.

[AdrianF]

I looked at the sky at 3:30 absolutely fantastic. Setup the scope in the only possy in my yard I can use setup a tour of the night sky 630 had to race out and get the scope under cover with a shower of rain looming.

Adrian

[Alchemy]

Don't worry melbournes dodgy weather is set to return, makes a change though you NSW guys n gals have all the good weather I hear. See that will teach you to buy or fix gear.:windy: not here...... :rain: nup not here either,:cold: no no no, :stargaze: oh yeah

[leon]

It has been a long time coming, however I do believe the night controllers are looking after us, enjoy.

Leon

[JethroB76]

So is it clear in Victoria?
I set up here in Tassie, no clouds on any of the satellite pictures and....clouds:mad2:

[Alchemy]

Completely clear Jeff , I'm just waiting for m31 to pop over the horizon trying to catch the lowest object I've ever done...... Up in about 10 mins hopefully.
Seeing looks much better tonight too, plus sunrise is an hour later too..... :lol:

[pgc hunter]

Looks like strike 3 for Melbourne. Good god, 3 in a row! Now I believe in anything :lol:

[Alchemy]

Lovely here, although I will retire somewhat earlier due to work tomorrow. Just calibration and tuning routines with some bino observing

[pgc hunter]

Same here, gotta get up for uni at 6.30 so no observing tonight :(

[mill]

Was good last night and tonight looks good again :cool::cool:

[mozzie]

no good here again!!!! another 150mm again today and its still peeing down now had enough:shrug::shrug::mad2::mad2:

[JethroB76]

I gave up waiting for the clouds to clear sometime after 12 :rolleyes:

[Alchemy]

Clear again here .... Just playing wih pecpro and gathering some data, nothing serious just fine tuning things so when Orion area returns I will have everything in peak performance.

I actually got over an hour on m31 last night... Crikeys it's huge, but so low that detail is lacking

[mithrandir]

John,

Don't offer it. Just package it up and send it. The current rainfall rate is 21mm/hour. The only sun today was during a sun-shower.

Andrew

[pgc hunter]

'bout time Sydney got something other than sun and heat :scared3:

[ballaratdragons]

Absolutely magic sky again tonight!!!

but I am so tired from broadcasting till 5:30 this morning I'm too knackered to take advantage of it :sadeyes:

That's the problem when things are going good, I overdo it and burn out :P

I'm so tired I even had trouble watching and cheering at my DRAGONS winning the Grand Final!

(not really, it's just another excuse to mention that the DRAGONS won the Grand Final :lol: )

[mozzie]

just woken up and the rain is still coming down onto the 3rd straight day and is hasnt stopped for 5 minutes.half your luck being able to use your scopes the weather the past few months has been shocking

[mozzie]

holly smokes!!!!! its still coming down.327mm taken out of gauge so far and no relief in sight,went down to pod and checked it out and no probes there thank goodness

[multiweb]

You guys had a fabulous long week-end by the sound of it. Sydney weather has been so bad. I can't remember last time we had that many consecutive rainy days. I hope it's going to clear for the week-end. For sure they wouldn't be any more water left up there. It all fell down already. :question: ;)