another hot Saturday night

[h0ughy]

well here it is 9.45, 33.9 degrees C and the poor little 40d Can only get to 10.9 Degrees C.

its ruddy hot, and the stars are a twinkling - badly

Sometimes i wonder why i do this...... i leant the other 40D to Scott tonight:lol: i have no idea what he is after tonight but with the heat i went for something bright. i am looking at eta - yes another one.... but i hope to combine with older data.....to help reduce the noise:rofl::help:

who else is out tonight imaging:shrug::D

[DavidTrap]

I'm testing gear in Brisbane. Trying out polar alignment with SSAG and PHD. Managed to intermittently find Rigel near the Meridian to adjust Azimuth, but now looking at a sea of "pooh" towards the west trying to adjust Altitude. Oh well, I suppose it's the first time in 6 months I have actually set the gear up, so that is a start!

DT

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Wow! And I thought I was doing tough last night at 24 degrees. I managed to get the ST2K down to -5 deg C but that didn’t shift the pesky clouds! I think the warmest night I have ever had in Brisbane was only 28 deg C – I just cannot imagine what it must be like at almost 34!:eyepop:

I hope you sleep okay!:)

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

dennis it got to 42.7 today with the humidity of yesterday of 87% going down to just 27% tonight - LOL no dew here :rofl:

[h0ughy]

just going to move the dome - will check on current temps

[Kevnool]

Normaly that would be me Dave but tonight its cold and wet been raining all arvo.
The air con is having a spell.

Have another coldie it helps.

Cheers Kev.

[h0ughy]

ok its dropped to 33.4, the camera is running at 11.1

[mithrandir]

At home - 22:20 - 33.6C, 35% hum (only that high because the garden got some water around sunset), quite a few stars - twinkling enough they wouldn't stay in the FOV.

[Tandum]

I got the PC/Monitor/Power Supplies in the dome today. Got the wiring roughed out and have it shooting darks, no stars here. I can get the qhy9 down to -25C but it's at 87% cooling, 90% with the entry door closed :( It's better inside the house with the aircon on :)

[h0ughy]

30.4 deg now - and a wall of cloud just came through - set the camera to do some darks - i havent got any for these temps

[DavidTrap]

It's been cloudy here most of the night. I managed to sort a few things out nonetheless.

I was going to put a tarp over the rig and go to bed, but thought I shouldn't be lazy and put it all away tonight. Just as well, for as I'm typing this a brief shower of rain has just passed over...

Still hot and now even steamier!

DT

[ballaratdragons]

It is currently 8 degrees here Dave.

We've been having 30's for the last few weeks and tonight its like winter is back :shrug:

My Mum rang me today from Toukley (Central Coast) and said it was 42c there. It was 16c here when she rang :lol:

We have on our jumpers, Ugg boots, beanie etc. Weird!

[h0ughy]

more rain - you know we havent seen any here this month:question:

just closed the shutters;) still doing darks

[h0ughy]

8:eyepop: oh how i dream for such temps:)

[ballaratdragons]

You can have it. I hate the cold. Especially when we just got used to the hot.

:lol: