[davidpretorius]

hmmmmmmmm, seeing sounded as bad as Mikes, but not surprising, we had south westerlies.

The 3 planets looked fantastic and I will attempt to have a go at mercury in a few days.

I missed the io transit thanks to crap seeing, but really enjoyed the morning regardless.

Scope is nicely balanced and managed to get the filter changes / vibration down to 10 seconds.......so the season looks promising from the scopes point of view. The cooling is getting the outside of the mirror down to 2 to 3 degrees below ambient. I still get the rebound as the internal mirror temps warms it up by 1/2 degree when i turn it off, but I am very pleased so far.

Cateye collimators have left the US and wil be here soon.

As Joop gets brighter, I may even try and put in a small extension tube for better seeing nights without dropping below 30fps due to a poor histogram