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What a frustrating morning..
Cloudy until about 8:30am, got a few afocal shots through the expensive 32mm GSO plossl after that.. tried the DMK for a while but the focal length was too long for the conditions.. LOTS of wind shaking the scope about madly. Trust houghy to lead us to the 2nd windiest spot in newcastle (and the cloudiest, today).
Clouded out for another hour or so, then some nice breaks for a while before having high hazy cloud for the remainder. We got a nice sucker hole right for 3rd and 4th contact, which I got some avi's of using my DMK in h0ughy's 5" mak on his EQ6. Man I want an EQ mount. So much easier to press a button to get it in position. Much more stable too thanks to the short scope on it.
Great company with Andrew, h0ughy and others from NAS. Sun and wind burnt, very tired but at least we saw it and got some images. For a while there I thought we would miss the whole thing.
Came over wall to wall cloud again shortly after it finished.. so it could've been worse!
Will post images later, once I get a chance to go through the junk and find the good stuff.
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