[xelasnave]

Wow..slept from about 9 pm to 2am ..that shows that I must have been exhausted,...I set up both the Askar and RASA to harvest some photons and went back to the van and passed out watching proceedings on my tablet...when I woke up I thought that was well timed..the scopes will be parked and I will just close up...but when I got down there both scopes had not flipped and everything was shut down...the inverter had shut off presumably because the batteries got low...oh well...and ice on the scopes the chair etc...so start the genny rather than go to bed..ran a 240 volt lead to a spot light that can be a 400 watt heater turned on two fans, threw over the scopes a couple of sheets ( I find they are better to help drying out stuff) and just left the scopes where I found them ..I will send them home in the light of day.

AND of course being so cold the roof had lifted the gears off the track and so I closed it by hand...really lucky that my back is better than it was.

Looking at my remote thermometer in the van it has warmed up in the observatory to minus .2 ...mmm toasty ...and 6 in the van.

Tonight I saw a rabbit, a walaby and a bandicout which was neat..the bandicout was just outside the van..I could see him in the dark better than he could see me I think..but so cute..he was pretty small so young I guess...I am sure it wasn't a big rat.

Oh well it's near time for my meds so that worked out well.

alex