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Old 02-12-2018, 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by glend View Post
Maybe an asteroid, but nothing seems to be in that area at the time. Space junk?
I reckon it could be an asteroid. It's moving very slow. Maybe 2 arc min in the past hour or so.

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Originally Posted by LewisM View Post
Canberra has been OK tonight. Had a few runs of very high level cloud tonight, but cleared. Guiding was also an issue tonight, as it wouldn't guide at all - some nimrod didn't push the cable all the way in

Then for the first 30 minutes I'd forgotten to turn the cooling on...

Oh, and SharpCap refused to polar align plate solve for me...until I switched to the correct guide-camera...

Yeah, it's been SO long since I imaged last I'd lost my routine
My DEC was a little crazy before but I know what it is. My RA is fixed so guiding is a lot tighter than couple of days back. It's very dewy tonight though. Getting wet now. Just did a meridian flip and keep going. Mop ready.
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