yer there's been smoke for the last 10 days basically, also disgraceful seeing, despite a stable high pressure system and the nearest jetstreams being hundreds of miles away. I can see only 3 stars in Crux and a small handful of others. NELM would be around +1 for the last 10 nights. You can smell the smoke and tonight it is especially bad with the moon casting an orange glow.
Here in Vic it's the DSE (department of sustainability and environment) who are the criminals. Arsonists with protection of the law
These are the same people that caused the catastrophic Wilsons Prom fire with one of their supid arson-fests. I for one am absolutely disgusted that these people are allowed to pollute the state with such filth, robbing us of our hobby, and making life a misery for those with respitory problems. I mean, we ahd 10 potentially clear nights, with likely good seeing ruined. Now, we have days of winter storms, cold fronts and rain to look forward to
Not happy Jan!