Finally got some decent clear sky time last night, woohoo! Bout time! and it was DARK
was great standing on the dome deck and looking at the 180 deg spread of the Milky Way hugging the horizon right around from Orion in the East, through Crux in the South and right around to Sagittarius in the West, looked amazing! It (well "I") was a bit slower than I would have liked, given the frustrated patience displayed in the last few months
and with some technical difficulties thrown in, of course
... but in the end I managed to gather 3 hrs of excellent data before the clouds rolled in around 2am, I was stocked
. Best thing was, the seeing was fabulous again, that's three imaging sessions now, the first two were micro sessions really but all have revealed good seeing and last night was the best so far, very happy
It so far appears to be a good site, seeing wise, phew! after the many visual sessions enjoyed with my 12" Dob plus these three imaging sessions now, it would appear that the altitude does make a difference
so far haven't experienced one night of bad or even
average seeing really
(touch wood)
...just need La Nina to F-Off and it'll be hammer and tongs
Hope to get more data soon of course...fingers crossed...
Mike