Anyone looking up in Melbourne?

[janoskiss]

Given the Moonglow and the usual City skyglow, you'd think it was not worth the bother. However...

Seeing is not great but not the worst either; you can still catch Saturn with Cassini div visible, and three moons very close to the planet are easy to spot. Maybe you can see more of them. Now that I've looked it up I see there should be more moons...

[ballaratdragons]

Steve, it may be a full Moon, and no city glow here, but I have heavy dew and low fog creeping up from the creek next to me.

Trans is 10/10 but seeing is about 1/10. No scoping for me STILL!

[janoskiss]

Ken, Seeing has been mediocre but not too bad. But like your way, there's lots of dew here. I just keep wiping the telrad "window" (I rarely use a "finder" since I got a telrad.). I keep blowing EPs clean with the hand-held blower.

[Starkler]

Just gave my long neglected binos a bit of a go. Even with the glare of the full moon I enjoyed eta carina neb, the jewel box and a few other bright clusters before burning my retinas on the moon :)

[ThunderChild]

I was last night - and saw the Cassini for the first time! :cool: Also saw some form of banding around the lower third of Saturn. Cool for me, because I've seen no detail until now.
The 80A filter I bought helped me get it, but funnily enough, once I'd seen it, I could also see it without the filter. The filter did help bring out the band detail on Saturn for me.

Looking west (towards Melb), my sky is almost bare of stars.