Last night

speach (Simon) · #1 28-04-2014, 08:36 AM

Last night was the best viewing for a few months. I saw ngc5139, ngc5460, ngc5128, ngc5662, ngc5617, ngc4945, ngc3766 and ngc5102. It was an awesome night!

PeterHA (Peter) · #2 28-04-2014, 02:02 PM

Yes,
Here at Ridge Rd in Melbourne's east a simmilar situation, low wind, no clouds. SQM was a bit on the low side with 20.31 (we have seen 20.55 before at this site) and seeig was not that good, but good enough for 4 hours of DS in Leo, Virgo, Crux, Scorpion.
Saw the Bug Nebule PN in a 4" include dark middle bridge.
4 Galaxies in the eyepiece field all at the same time looks stunning.
We had 4" and 12" out there.

byronpaul (Paul) · #3 28-04-2014, 03:12 PM

Guys,

could only get out for about 10min last night with Binos, but sky did look pretty good. After 2 long weekends of jobs around the house listed by SWMBO, I didn't have the energy to set up ..... but looking back I should have made the effort

Peter - is your special spot on Ridge Rd up in near Mt Dandenong?

speach (Simon) · #4 28-04-2014, 04:36 PM

This was in from my garden ngc5139 is a naked eye object, albeit you have to use averted vision. I'm in a dark area there is a bit of loom from Melbourne but it's not bad