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Old 01-02-2008, 06:47 PM
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Blue Alert

After quite a number of day of seriously garbage weather. There is now a serious outbreak of blue sky occuring at the moment.

Add this to the fact that the jet stream is nowhere to be seen and the temps are in the low 20's and dropping and I think there could be a good night of viewing and imaging about to happen.

I just hope I haven't jinxed myself by getting too excited I'll give it another half hour and then set up.

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Old 01-02-2008, 06:55 PM
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Settle down Ric, you will be heard and it will be all over, but i agree it will be a beauty tonight.

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Old 01-02-2008, 06:57 PM
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Good luck Ric, we are still being hit with cloud cover up here in the Sunny State??
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Old 01-02-2008, 07:02 PM
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Note to myself "I must control my emotions"

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Old 01-02-2008, 07:03 PM
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Yeah... rub it in, Ric!

Enjoy!

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Old 01-02-2008, 07:15 PM
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Hi,

Yep, your only 214kms away from me and I just bought some astro gear. It won't get her till next week, so you will still get a couple of days

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Old 01-02-2008, 08:07 PM
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blue sky ,what does it look like,just got a new guide scope of course it going to be cloudy..go for those clear skys Ric
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Old 01-02-2008, 09:04 PM
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Tonight is an absolutely magic night. Clear sky (again!) and the wind has dropped to zero!!!!

As soon as the Aussies wipe out the Indians in the Twenty20 match I'm out there

The Indians died in their innings
Now it's our turn to clean up completely.

GO GILLIE!!!!!!
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Old 01-02-2008, 09:13 PM
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Angry I't Ain't Fair...

Sydney weather predicted as &#%@ for next week.
Moon in the best place for ages....
Blue skies and no hippies for Ken...
Mumble, Mumble, Mumble....
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Old 01-02-2008, 09:26 PM
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Lovely night here too. Just thought I'd rub it in a bit
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:00 PM
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GO GILLIE!!!!!!
DON'T GO GILLIE!!!!!!
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:14 PM
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Lovely night here too. Just thought I'd rub it in a bit
Pouring here. We had over 25 ml in an hour and it is still raining. Too wet to go and look in the rain gauge.
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:21 PM
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We had 21mm last night, and 18.5 mm at the moment....everytime i mow the bloody telescope pad it rains for days!!!!!!

BTW...AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE , OI OI OI!!!!!
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:23 PM
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Sydney weather predicted as &#%@ for next week.
Moon in the best place for ages....
Blue skies and no hippies for Ken...
Mumble, Mumble, Mumble....
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:41 PM
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It is magic here at the moment, sorry guys, but it will be a late one tonight for me.

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Old 01-02-2008, 11:57 PM
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Yep, as predicted I jinxed myself.

The seeing looked around 7 to 8, the stars were pinpoints at high mag during alignment, pre focus was spot on and I took a great set of darks for the evening.

I lined up for a Ha session with Eta Carina and yep, right on cue the clouds rolled in (several lines of expletives are deleted here).

Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I'm all packed up now and it's wall to wall dense cloud.

Maybe tomorrow night.
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Old 02-02-2008, 02:16 PM
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Don't think I helped Ric, shouldn't have been so cruel to the unfortunates among us. Could also be that my new EQ5 drives have been posted today. Looked outside just now and here they come, all white an fluffy. Karma is a terrible thing.

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Old 02-02-2008, 02:22 PM
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Hi Bill, I checked the weather site and there is cloud backed up to the S.A. border. I think it might be a quiet week.

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Old 02-02-2008, 02:35 PM
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I got some blue skies where I am but you know what happens......

Edit: What always happens!
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Old 02-02-2008, 03:01 PM
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I've watching the white fluffys passing by overhead today. I think I'll rate it a mildly optimistic for tonight.

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