Confused....

[el_draco]

I have a telescope... but I have not seen a star for months. Am I on Candid camera... or am I actually living my own version of the Truman show? :shrug:

[astroron]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: GOOD ONE :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[shelltree]

We had beautiful clear skies last night... At least until 9.30 or so. And of course once everything was packed up again it clears right up. Damn! Still was a great night for observing. Hope we all get some better weather real soon, I'm going insane!

[TrevorW]

Lovely clear skies in Perth and more expected with temperatures above 35 during the day, I might throw a news years eve pool star party

[el_draco]

... And THIS NEWS is supposed to make me feel better!!! :sadeyes:
... I am after SYMPATHY here..., not SALT! :sadeyes:
... Oh, the misery... :( :( :(

:confused2:

[TrevorW]

Sorry I'm confused :question:, it makes me happy:D, so I thought I'd cheer you up :thumbsup:with the thought that at least someone in Oz is enjoying clear night skies:astron:

[Kevnool]

Pool Party yeah.
Tomorrow night no obs just as said pool party.
Ahh the beer,maybe a visual look up but by midnight dont think i will see much.

Cheer up people

[el_draco]

I went out to my observing site last night and saw these wierd things in the sky.... shining like.... bloody stars!

Then I realised I was mistaken, for as soon as I began to assemble my scope to confirm they were indeed stars... they went away again.

Must have been dreaming... Very dark night... no stars... only five weeks of holiday left... five weeks until the starts come back!

boo hoo :sadeyes:

[[1ponders]]

I'm feeling a bit like that kid from The karate Kid.

roll off, roll on, roll off, roll on.

:tasdevil:

[jjjnettie]

Ha, you could have been out there last night.
A true astronomer takes pain in his stride. ( ha ha sore foot....stride....get it??....)

[pgc hunter]

Melbourne did pretty well in Dec, fair amount of clear sky about. If not for work I reckon I could've gotten a good 10 sessions in. None of that omni-present punce that defined the vast majority of 2010.

[ballaratdragons]

That's better than saying the Karate Kid 'Wax Off' :P

[M110]

It's shaping up to nice clear one tonight and NYs eve was crystal clear.

[el_draco]

Dang man!!!, dont say it out loud!:eyepop:

[Stu Ward]

We've had a few clear nights but the recent rains then hot weather have increased the mozzies to plague proportions here and they even bite through your jeans !!! So I have been put off from going out.

[pgc hunter]

Was looking real promising here, but my instincts, based on lingering patches of stratocrapulus cloud, gusty sourweterly winds and a BOM forecast of morning cloud, saw me staying inside.

Great decision.

tomorrow night looks alright though :thumbsup: Should be good for hunting galaxies with the forecast freezing cold hopefully bringing good transparency and seeing with it.

[el_draco]

Entire Orion arm just spread out across the sky.... Crystal clear! Now I am going to bed.... :D

[M110]

lol

[el_draco]

Sat down today... stinking hot and humid. Put hours into setting up my new scope and thought... Hmmm, can't wait to use that. Maybe tonight.

Ten minutes later, pouring rain, 10 degree drop in temperature and the loudest damn clap of thunder I have ever heard. Fair rattled the brickwork!

Take home message boys and girls.... Everyone buy a new telescope and global warming will be history. We must all do this for the sake of the world! ;)

[M110]

Where in Hobart are you? The clouds cleared last night at about 11.30 so I was out til about 4am and didn't wake until midday . It was very warm I went to the computer as I have a weatherzone tracker on my desktop, gives current temps, it said it 33deg, within an hour and half the cold change had come through and it 20deg. Holy crap what a massive change. The thunder my wife thought was an explosion, it was that loud.

[rogerg]

I can only think that at some point us Perth people are really going to cop a whole lot of bad weather for a long time, because we've had a dream run for a while now. I go back to work on Monday after two weeks of almost continuous astronomy with fair to good conditions, and then the new moon before that was nothing to complain about either. Shame we have no rain and hence water, everything is crisp to the bone.

[el_draco]

I was sitting on a balcony in Moonah... just happened to be looking right at the spot in the sky where the flash occurred about 10 degrees north of the Zenith. So damn bright I instantly flinched then nearly left the chair like a bomb was under it when the thunder arrived about 2 seconds later. Must have been right under it.

Temperatures now halved. Wish I was at my observing site in the mountains right now. Must be sheer bloody heaven there.

[M110]

I'm a bit further out the highway, at Goodwood. I had just come inside after watching the rain and lightening, I am a bit of thunderstorm junkie, I saw some lightening and heard thunder and thought it was all over. I went back inside then bang the hugest thunderclap I have heard rattled all of the windows in my house. Why would want an observing site in this weather, with these damn clouds?lol

[el_draco]

Its 30+ acres at 550m altitude, behind Wellington Park; black as ink and beautiful in any weather. :D

[M110]

Nice. Still don't think see anything through these damn clouds. My in-laws live at a place called Mt. Lloyd it's about 20ks past New Norfolk up in the hills. Nice dark up there too.