Jupiter tonight - quad treat at 8pm

[davidpretorius]

GRS, IO, Ganymede and JNR spot.

Jetstream looks bad for everyone, except lucky tasmanians. Nonetheless, 4x powermates in and any extension tubes.

Asimov will be our guest coach tonight and Gus Hidding has nothing on how tough asi will be on us tonight re positive thinking.

Image clouds if needs be!

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Only the faintest whisps of cloud tonight in Melbourne.
I have the scope packed in the car and ready to go

[asimov (John)]

Be there or be square you blokes!

Repeat after me! "the jetstream suks...the jetstream suks...."

[h0ughy (David)]

good luck guys, dennis and mike know?

[davidpretorius]

there's no place like home, theres no place like home

[Lester]

Ice packs are on and cooler is running since 4:30.

Laptop is charged.

Its all systems go Ramjets.

[iceman (Mike)]

Clouds and jetstream.. hmm not likely.

[Lester]

Hey Asi,

Just looked at your super duper jetstream map and we are in the same conditions as Dave in the Apple Isle.

Absolutely perfect.

Oh Sorry Asi thats right, I remember now, Darn its a minus 10 and getting worser and worser.

[asimov (John)]

Happy imaging, it's a no go for me.

[davidpretorius]

4/10 at best, and temps dropping. called it quites, 5 vids, i promise to post regardless

[Jupiter]

First night out with 10" dob, saw the GRS for first time, no Red Jr though, fantastic detail, is there a moon shadow on the top cloud belt ie the one without the GRS?
Also did anyone see a satellite or whatever whiz past Jupiter at 7.00 pm SA time?, also saw 2 other satellites through the scope and 2 shooting stars by naked eye, will prolly stay out till the soccer comes on, oh and caught Saturn and Mars as well, took a few pics but I doubt they will be any good.

[Dennis]

Rain, clouds and jet stream in Brisbane. Early night tonight it seems. Good luck to those out there still trying.

Cheers

Dennis

[Lester]

I reckon It peaked at a 4/10= lots of detail but lots more fuzzy too.

Took 12 avis will stack a few now.

[Lester]

Stacked em and trashed em.

[asimov (John)]

Yep, I walked outside at 7:30 last night & saw the twinkling going on, no need to set up the scope to behold the truth.

[Dujon]

Had things set up, just in case, but the cloud persisted. Maybe tonight, though the clouds - after a clear and sunny morn - are slowly beginning to congregate. It looks a bit icy up top-side as well, which I guess won't help even if the lower flock decides to disperse.

Damn shame that; I was looking forward to playing around with my collimation to find a decent bench mark for future settings. Ah well.

*edit*

Yup! 'Scope's back in the house. It's raining. Grrr.