seeing tonight

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 24-07-2009, 01:19 AM

Well, lookee here... its 1.20am and the seeing is *perfect* ... omg...

Bird

MrB (Simon) · #2 24-07-2009, 01:34 AM

Nice! make the most of it.
Cloud has only just rolled away here after weeks of rain, seeing not that flash tho.
Gonna try for my first glimpse of your strike and then head to bed.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 24-07-2009, 01:41 AM

Luckieeee!

Enjoy it while you can.

MrB (Simon) · #4 24-07-2009, 02:16 AM

No joy

Not even sure if the strike is visible right now?

Seeing wasn't as bad as first thought, maybe 5 (Pickering).
I need a barlow tho, limited to 100x but was able to clearly see Io's shadow, albeit small.
Bedtime.

AdrianF (Adrian) · #5 24-07-2009, 07:37 AM

It was a dusty atmosphere here yesterday/last night couldnt see anything clearly. Packed up the webcam experiment early wasnt sure if I was obtaining focus or it was the dust distorting things. Definately no joy seeing Jupiter.

Adrian

h0ughy (David) · #6 24-07-2009, 07:39 AM

Look forward to the next batch of images Bird!

DavidU (Dave) · #7 24-07-2009, 09:54 AM

seeing was good here in Melb for a change.
Packed it in when the scope started icing up.

matt · #8 24-07-2009, 10:29 AM

God I wish some of that seeing would head our way!!!!!!!!

Anyway....looking forward to seeing your images, Anthony

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #9 24-07-2009, 12:24 PM

The strike point wasn't visible unfortunately but I did get some reasonably good stuff of Callisto, Io, its shadow and the GRS.

Maybe the weather will be good tonight as well if we're lucky, we gat another look at the strike point later, check the front page for predicted times :-)

ps, smile! you're on camera... while I'm typing this is being filmed by the local ABC tv crew for a story next Friday on Stateline :-)

:-)

cheers, Bird

Ric · #10 24-07-2009, 12:41 PM

Good value Bird

I've got that marked in the diary for next friday.

Cheers

iceman (Mike) · #11 24-07-2009, 04:47 PM

C'mon Anthony where are the images? LOL

Weather is beautiful here at the moment, I hope the seeing is good tonight. I'll be looking to capture my first image of the Bird Strike tonight, after being in Melbourne all week!! grumble grumble.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #12 24-07-2009, 05:38 PM

coming soon to a screen near you...

MrB (Simon) · #13 24-07-2009, 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bird

....check the front page for predicted times :-)

Cheers! was wondering if something like that was available somewhere.

Quote:

ps, smile! you're on camera...

davidpretorius · #14 24-07-2009, 09:09 PM

good seeing last night for Joop and it looked superb through the eyepiece.

9 runs, ..... chugging through em!

iceman (Mike) · #15 24-07-2009, 11:24 PM

Seeing only average here right now, but I can see the impact scar just coming into view.

I can only imagine what Anthony felt when he saw it for the first time!!

h0ughy (David) · #16 25-07-2009, 12:50 AM

well i have given up by midnight - fully fogged out now dew heater is no match for thick fog. stars were still twinkling though, not really steady up there

iceman (Mike) · #17 25-07-2009, 07:11 AM

yeh I gave up at about 1:20am. Seeing was terrible.

Local breeze and jetstream ruined it here.

davidpretorius · #18 25-07-2009, 07:29 AM

rain here again. wettest june / july ever i reckon.

MrB (Simon) · #19 25-07-2009, 08:37 PM

Perth had rain again last night, but.......
Clear tonight! woohooo!
Seeing is anyones guess right now.

Strike should be coming into view in about a half hour, but for me Jup is below the horizon.
How long will it stay visible? I'd guess half a Jovian day.... but how long is that?

EDIT: Nevermind, answer is ~10h so strike should be visible for ~5h right?. I'm in luck tonight!

MrB (Simon) · #20 28-07-2009, 12:18 AM

Ok finally got to see the impact. All smiles now