Pea souper here in Melb

[DavidU (Dave)]

After setting up the scope under a clear sky an hour later it's a pea souper.
I will have to search for the scope LOL.

[h0ughy (David)]

well we have torrential rain squalls here, sound your foghorn before you go out

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well we have torrential rain squalls here, sound your foghorn before you go out

So far today we've had 35mm, according to my WH-1091. I'm starting to wonder if one of those nuisance spiders has set up residence in the rain gauge, stopping the rocker working properly.

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by DavidU

After setting up the scope under a clear sky an hour later it's a pea souper.
I will have to search for the scope LOL.

Extreme crap seeing here, I had the scope out, but came in at 9.30 as seeing was craptacular, so it was eevident I wasn't going to be observing planetaries as I've planned. The stars themselves looked like planetaries at any reasonable mag Transparency was rubbish aswell, so it was a lose lose situation.

Did however get some half decent views of Saturn with the 5mm LVW and a 4mm TMB supermono. Spotted Tethys only 1 arc second from the ring, and could see the cassini division at the very tips of the ring.

but all in all, a waste of time and energy.

If only I had the seeing of a couple of weeks ago, damn I'd be dead from pleasure overload.

Tonight was also the nail in the coffin for SkippySky's seeing predictions. Now, from experience, I've always found their predictions of seeing to be extraordinarily poor, as they seem to predict great seeing so often, yet it's the complete polar opposite. This is the case 100% of the time. Tonight, Skippysky predicted as huge patch of near perfect 9/10 seeing for all of Vic, yet I had one of the worst seeing I ever experienced tonight.

Skippy sky is suprisingly accurate at predicting cloud, but for seeing, it is utterly useless.