That was a fantastic club night.
Great views, great people and far too many laughs
Pity some folk had to leave (and some sleep), as Daniels video shows, it cleared up again to a magic sky about 3am
Once daylight came we kept going, looking at Mars and Saturn (so much more detail in the daylight) and an easy splitting of Rigal Kentaurus.
Daylight stars and planet observations are fantastic. I encourage people to try it.
It was good to have some new visitors turn up. Especially considering the distances some of them came just for a club night!
Mish just laid back most of the night on a Tarp doing the Meteor and Satellite watch, and taking Milky Way widefields, Jen just trotted around making us laugh, Jake and Drew watched Two and a Half Men DVD's in the Clubroom most of the night
ByronPaul had both his scopes going, so while one was imaging we were ogling through the other.
Too many funny points, like me splitting my toe right open, Martin following me in the tripping game, observing terrific detail in a Dob with a completely filthy and corroded 12" mirror (see, no need to worry about cleaning those mirrors folks
), but fortunately Malcolm had a Clean version
The Generator running out of fuel halfway through the night, Martin unplugging a power cable to pack it away not knowing it was Daniels only source of power to his camera (half way through an image) etc etc
Daniel, top work on the video
See you all hopefully for next month's SVAA Club night February 24th
Thanks to the club members that came and the other Committee members Martin and Angus for the quick meeting we rushed through so we could get out there and look at the sky instead of paperwork
The way it should be
P.S. Thanks Paul for syphoning the extra petrol out of your car so everyone could keep going
Just don't breathe near any naked flames for at least 24 hours