Well I braved it and setup last night, was kinda hoping the two storms
one to the west and another to the south west would keep parting and go
around me. but no! they joined forces and came straight at me. So I had
to pull the shower curtain off the shower to help cover the scope, must buy
a tarp
still I could see it was clear behind and I managed to keep the
scope dry. I also managed to fix my pointing errors on the AN. Almost every
object I observed landed in the FOV of my 14mm XW. So to test it I put
it in tour mode and toured globular clusters in Sagittarius brighter than mag
12
Palomar 8, N6642, M22, N6717, N6638, M28, N6544, N6553, N6624, M54,
D Jorgovski 2, N6440, M70, M69, N6528, N6522, N6652, N6569, Terzan 7,
N6723, M55, M75. I didn't realise there were that many globs in Sagittarius.
Also dialed up some numbers from Starry night... N1261, N1566, N6744,
N7582
I then started a tour of galaxies in Fornax N1398, N1399, N1365, Fornax A,
N1097, ESO 356-64. The last one was the only object I couldn't detect in
the 14mm XW but the AN was saying it is 1.12 x 1 degrees, so I probably
was looking at it but just a small section.
It sure was a heap of fun albeit pretty crappy seeing really 6-7/10 in trans
and we had intermitant cloud. The jetstream had cleared off too. I came in
at 10pm mostly because another big bank of cloud was heading in from the
SW + plus work this morning.
I'll be out again tonight as there is no work tomorrow, so Glen your welcome
to come out... weather permitting
regards,CS