Sorry Warren, Aus seems to be sending all the good weather over here at present. Although I confess the garden could do with some serious moisture already. The long term forecast is for a hot dry La Nina summer so some hosing required if that is any consolation for you.
Liz, I'm sure I'm skidding around in the LMC but I'm having trouble getting my bearings up there. It seems to be big and messy, heaps of stars, too many in fact. I'll pull up a photo of the region so I can get a better idea of what I am looking for, I probably swept right past it. Part of the problem is that transparency is not good so even the 10 x 50 bins struggle with the fainter areas and I'm only winning on the 10" due to aperture. A 30mm wide view EP might be the best scanning option as a starter. I nearly picked up a 32mm 2" a couple of weeks ago but someone on here beat me to it. Just got to keep looking.
Next couple of nights are not looking so good but as long as they keep popping up regular like I'll be happy.
I have a simple EQM astrophoto project started in the garage. Heath Robinson would be proud of it ... I hope ! All to be revealed soon if it works otherwise this email will self destruct in 5,..4,.. 3,..
