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Yes I observed Macholz too last night. Didn't bother with setting up the scope as I could see lightning in the South and some cloud so I observed with the 7 x50s. Was particularly struck with how large the nucleus was. With binos could see no tail
I spent a lot of time -two satellites zipped past Formalhaut in that time-last night trying to track down the Helix Nebula with the 7 x50s but in the end gave up without succeeding..I am sure one should be able to observe the Helix even from suburban locations with a 7 x 50...but I couldn't last night even with my best averted vision attempts.
I stayed up till 1 am but no geminids that I could see. And then patchy cloud appeared.
Looks 60 % cloud just this minute over Western Sydney
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