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Originally Posted by Saturnine
Well I'm glad that's over with, packed the car yesterday afternoon and headed southwest toward hopefully clearer skies. Was limiting myself to a range of a tankful of petrol for the round trip, (tight budget), with the BOM satellite scans and CFN predictions as a guide.
Ended up south of Braidwood at sunset with no break in the cloud mass in sight though the edge of the cloud band was supposed to move north during the evening, so I picked a spot to wait it out. The cloud didn't seem to want to dissipate as eclipse time got closer and it didn't. By 11:00pm I thought I could see a possible edge to the cloud band on the southern horizon but it never got closer unfortunately.
So, an 500+km round trip to see and image nothing, so much for the planning and going by accounts, if I had ventured a bit further south down the Cooma Rd I probably would have got under clearer skies. From where I was to Michelago as the crow flies was not that far, less than 100 km so it was a little demoralising to read the reports of the guys that were there and who got to see some of the show.
To all who had clearer skies, thanks for sharing your images, most appreciated and to the CFN guys, thanks for your efforts in keeping us updated with the cloud forecasts for the evening. Now we can plan to do it all again on 28th July, with more success I hope.
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wow you identified 500km worth of water vapour
