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Originally Posted by Dave882
Wonderful image! And sounds like quite an adventure as well
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Superb Peter. 
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
Oooohhhhhh had a moment there . Awesome and beautiful
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Thanks gentlemen.....It was indeed the adventure. Being a retired Airline Pilot, I could have flown to Exmouth in a very comfy cabin, well, shall we say, for not a lot.
But, how do you get a six inch APO in the shadow of the moon without some neanderthal tossing your rare and diffraction limited optics onto the luggage conveyor?
So we loaded up the SUV and headed West.
What I didn't know, was the state of the arterial roads out west.
Jessuswepped....Kalgoorlie's regional excuse for bitumen was pathetic.
Returning to Sydney via our final 400Km on the Hume Highway, was sheer bliss in comparison. I've also driven across a good slab of the USA and have to observe, as a nation, we really have some infrastructure to yet build....The USA's highway system was established 100 years ago. The fact there is only one sealed road across Australia, from east to west is damming.
Sorry...I digress.
As for the eclipse...pretty much as good as it gets.
Cyclone Ilsa caused us considerable en route met-forecast grief but in retrospect made for perfect azure-blue skies on E-day.
The AP gear worked flawlessly....and let's face it, the Moon won't return for a re-shoot if things don't work as advertised.
As for the results? ...yeah...gotta be happy with that
