We made a quick trip to SA last week to stay with friends. They live in Hamley Bridge 80k's north of Adelaide and they're 5 mins from Stockport Observatory.
They had arranged for us to go along to a members meeting at the observatory last Saturday to meet everyone and check out the equipment there. Unfortunately the skies were clouded in and the meeting was called off. It was such bad luck as the skies were clear on Friday and Sunday nights.
Anyway we managed to take some daytime shots
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The main observatory houses a 20in Newt-Cass reflector computer controlled and equiped with a SCT-6 CCD camera
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The smaller observatory houses an 18in Newtonian
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The slide off observatory houses a 15in Newtonian
The site also contains three telescope pads with power a furnished hut with sleeping accomodation and shower and toilet Facilities.
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We also called in to see " dugnsuz " Got to check out Doug's new Canon 40D.....What a monster compared to our basic Pentax
We see he's posted some great images already.
All in all we had a nice break..arrived home to collect our DSI Pro from the PO. Now we have to set it all up and get out there autoguiding
