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Leyburn Sky Night
Hi All,
David (Westsky) invited me out to leyburn for the weekend starting Friday night......I gratefully accepted and Picked up Andrew (Astro_South) and his Big Dob on the way through....Leyburn is approx 200km west of brisbane with nice dark skies.....we got their at 5:00pm Friday afternoon to set up and wait for the beautiful skies to reveal themselves....
This was my first time ever under dark skies and I immediately could see the difference......I wont go through them all but Andrew showed me neally every Nebula, Cluster, Planatries and Galaxies their is....they were throwing NGC numbers at me causing my thumb to get bruised on my GOTO keypad....lol
I was completely amazed at what you can see with the majors like Tuc47, Orion , Omega cent, Terantula and heaps of other Clusters....plus lots lots more...
If anything I didn't think their was much difference when looking at the planets......their probably was but was marginal....to me anyway...
I had a great time...learnt heaps and I must say Andrew handles that Big Dob very well.....he was beating me to most of the targets while I layed back waiting for my GOTO to slur into position...I have pictures but 1 main one I had of all 3 of us taken by another astronomer...did not turn out at all well so hopefuly Andrew might have something....
David had a frustrating night....had a bit of trouble getting his new DSI working but once he worked out the cause of this his Laptop battery went flat.....lol
I have a picture of David (Westsky) with his Celestrons and a couple of picture's of our scopes.....
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