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Originally Posted by xelasnave
It's clear here although it's pretty wet and I can see misty going past the Moon.
Trying some O11 on NGC 6188 to see if it helps. I am charging the observatory battery using a car charged off the vans new batteries..wasteful but I can't be bothered putting petrol in the Genny.
A duck just now landed on the dam ..I didn't know they flew around at night.
Alex
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This commentary is top notch. I'd be surprised at a duck making a night mission, too.
Tonight is over for me, we got a nice, simple refractor (a sw 102/500 on the gso skyview alt-az mount) for my daughter today, so we spent a bit of time learning how to aim with a red dot finder, how to take pics with a dslr in the back (lots of moon shots), then did some star hopping and found Ptolemy's cluster. Saw 4 moons and the stripes of Jupiter, too. She loves it.
I mucked around with imaging, got sharpcap polar aligning going, got the guide camera focussed, all seemed good but in the end just couldnt get phd2 and apt to get along. When Ev went to bed i had a fun little cluster session with it... i really love the wishing well cluster so much. I think its my pick of the bunch so far. Happy to have a simple set up where i can relax and not burn brain fuel working out software issues
JP