[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by Shark Bait

Hi Flash,

The smoke must have been heading North to the Sunny Coast, but the strong breeze at Mt Mee was blowing East towards the coast.

Last night while at Mt Mee, I used the Astro-Tech eyepiece that I purchased from you. It's main role is for use in my Son's refractor but I wanted to give it a good run under dark skies.

It is not really suited to the Dob with a fair bit of coma around the outer edge of the FOV. I put an OIII filter on it to see how the wider field of view would go on nebula and it did a good job on Eta Carina.

Gidday Stu ....Yesterday afternoon saw smoke from our kitchen window ....went outside to front verandah ... and what a ' mess ' the surrounding sky was.....full of brown and white smoke ..and thick as ..!!
Thought to myself ....nope ..no stars tonight..not with that lot in the sky....and bound to hang around....there was a ' BIG ' fire some where nearby.
Around 7.30 pm ... Mrs goes outside ..calls out ...stars everywhere ... WHAT ...I walked out ...sky was ' black ' as... and ...Jupiter was staring at me as bright as ever.

That'll do me .... spent probably the best part of 2 hours ' panning' the skies with both Scopes....had a great time.
Great to see the eyepiece is holding up well.

Flash ..!!