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It was good to meet Scott, interesting to do battle with Scott's small Reflector and hand driven EQ mount, not the easiest combination to comb the skies. We also set up my LX90, alignment was a little dodgy from too little set up time, we looked at M42 in orion, 47 Tucanae near the Small Magellenic clouds, The Jewel Box, near the southern cross, Rigel Kent a double star. We talked about a few other targets, Pleiades Centaurus A and another Globular Cluster Omega Centauri the latter two were obscured by the Eucalyptus Nebula. Unfortunately around Midnight, the dew beat us, with Tassie's dry summers usually dew at this time of year isn't a problem, but some fires or burnoff by forestry the previous day meant that the upper atmospheric moisture settled as the night cooled. The next morning at home we were fogged in, very unusual for summer.
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