Dennis I wish you could've come down!
Chris, that's a shame - hopefully see you at IISAC though.
Ongoing report..
Yesterday we went for a walk into town for a nice breakfast at a local cafe and then headed into Coffs for some shopping. It was time to finally fit the active cooling system to my scope that Dave Pretorius kindly made for me. So first stop was Dick Smith for the bits and pieces.
With a bit of filing, screwing and taping, my scope now has active cooling! I ran it for an hour or so yesterday afternoon and the mirror temperature dropped by about 5 deg, so it's working very well.
Unfortunately the seeing was shocking last night so I didn't get to test it out under real imaging conditions but hopefully it will improve tonight.
I spent the night getting some widefield milkyway images and then catching up on some much needed sleep. Up early this morning for comet boattini again and a lovely crescent moon.
Hope the seeing improves tonight! Jetstream looks horrible though
