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Originally Posted by Paddy
Regarding dew and sketching, I haven't found it much of a problem around my part of central Victoria whilst making a sketch, but find this little dew hutch
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-446-0-0-1-0.html
very handy for keeping books charts and sketching gear dry during the session. Kilmore I imagine could be a bit different to our patch, though. |
That looks like exactly what I need. Yet another trip to Bunnings coming up! We have bought heaps of Coreflute recently, mainly to set up toy car tracks and similar things for our two and a half year old terror. I will have to buy another sheet as I doubt that there is any left. As soon as I saw that pic it was a no brainer that I need one, I even use what looks like the same Pelican case for my eyepieces and bits so something a similar size would work well. My table is about the same size too.
The Kilmore area gets pretty cold and dew is likely to be a big problem for me as the weather cools, on Thursday night only a hairdryer on an extension cord kept the corrector plate clear after about 9pm and the body of the scope was wet with dew by 10pm. A dewcap and heater will be needed pretty soon I think, maybe a dual channel controller and an eyepiece heater too. I actually had to bring the Nagler in and break it down into it's three discrete sections on Thursday night to let it warm up and dry out so I could keep using it as it fogged internally. Even the pluck out foam in the eyepiece case was wet at the end of the night. I left the case open in the house overnight to let everything dry out.
I did see someone at the ASV Messier star party with a heated eyepiece case. I thought it was an overkill at the time, maybe not so much as I thought. A little peltier effect panel to warm it up a few degrees from ambient might work wonders. But I would have to buy a new case, the wife is a photographer and would probably give me some significant looks for boring holes in a Pelican case.