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An extremely clear night! The only problem was the Mosquitoes!
Well I did my bit and after I put my son to bed I turned off all the lights in the house and spent a good couple of hours behind the scope. I had the best viewing of Saturn yet! I don't think it had anything to do with Earth hour as I still had the "glow" from Sydney in the Eastern sky (plus my damn neighbour's perpetual porch light... grrr)! Anyway the M42 nebula was great tonight, but I still couldn't split the double star in Alpha Centauri (I really should try when it's closer to the azimuth next time). I also spotted something interesing very near Epsilon Centauri which looked like, for lack of a better term, a big white cloud in space... any ideas as to what this may have been? Can't find a reference to it on the planisphere and as I'm new to stargazing I don't even have a clue as to what it could have been.
Planning an early start tomorrow morning to catch Jupiter again and hopefully see my first Mars!
Cheers
Wade
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