Hi everyone...
Well... For the first night in well over a month, here I sit, beside my EQ6 + C11, crystal clear skies waiting for saturn...
I set up tonight at 6.30pm got collimation nailed by 7.10... did about 1hr gazing at Orion, then an hour at tarantula, then about 20 minutes on Eta Car. did a few checks of laptop, focus, capture settings etc... that got me till about 10pm... Its now 12:42am.. Saturn will cleared the roof of my house about 5 mins ago.. going to give it another 20 minutes to avoid the heat haze coming off the roof...
Thats daaaamn near 3 hours doing... well.. Nothing.... Unfortunately skyglow here precludes me from hunting faint fuzzies, star clusters are uninspiring in an SCT (too narrow field) etc. etc.
So, as the title states.. What do you do while waiting for that target??? I have had WAAAYYYY too many coffee's, smoked too many ciggarettes, witnessed a few nice meteorites, but nothing spectacular... apart from that.. bored..
Cant go in and watch TV, because brisbane weather at the moment can not be trusted... I'd come outside to find a destroyed laptop, and a Schmidt Cassegrain Bucket. AALLLL full of water..
Well... thats filled in 6 or 7 minutes... (twidles thumbs...)