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Nice to catch up with a few of you on Saturday night. More than 4000 people turned up for a look through the telescopes. Conditions were quite good, with fairly steady seeing. Generally well behaved although someone managed to knock the altitude encoder arm off my scope early on which threw the Argo Navis off. Once I put it back the scope performed flawlessly all night, and thanks to the Perth observatory guys running their scope next door the queues were only 1hr long for both of them.
Highlight for me was the view through a 6" Lunt H-alpha scope with binoviewer - what a monster of a thing!
Cheers,
Andrew.
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