The weather forecast for Brisbane for closest approach on Monday 26th Jan looked dismal, so I set up in variable conditions on Sunday and managed to grab 8 x 60 sec frames with the Tak Mewlon 180, Tak X0.8 reducer (1728mm at F9.6) and ST2000XM before the clouds rolled in.
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I’ve also attached some screen captures from The Sky X Pro which shows how relatively “easy” it was to locate 2004 BL86.
Main problems were:
- the SBIG ST2000XM kept frosting over so I shot at ambient (27ºC) just to record something
- clouds were rolling in from the SE.
- mosquitos
- all fingers and thumbs as this was my 1st outing for several months.
I felt very lucky to have recorded what I did.
Cheers
Dennis