Got to grab these opportunities when they happen.
No doubt, associated with hot weather as the high passes over us
so you will have to use the peltier cooling
and with good seeing comes bright moon Yes looks pretty good, but day time heat will affect early imaging etc.. would have to wait till the early hours of the morning I think. Give things time to cool off a bit. Peltier, yep, time to throw everything into the freezer.
I just got back inside from observing the moon. There was a bit of turbulence but nothing too bad, good enough for crisp viewing up to about 200x or so.
like I said, tonight's the night baby!
yep gully breezes are a pain...but to paraphrase Dr Who: "domes are cool"
Looks good in the next 12-24 hrs for SA.
Spent all day putting in a floating timber floor and I'm
B U G G E R E D...especially after doing an astro all nighter
last night as well....but guddamnit...I'll be up tonight
as well...
god bless the person who invented beer
I just finshed painting the passage and putting in a floating floor myself, only a small one but the doorways are a pain, 9 of them to deal with plus the whole thing is an odd shape. Of course now that that job is done the rest of the house is looking worse for wear
Despite the wind I went out for some moon light. I had to put a clamp on my dob base to stop it spinning.
The seeing was better than last night which was like looking through a heat haze. Tonight it was just the wind blowing in and out of focus. I enjoyed the view anyway.
Mike, there were brief periods here of 1.6-2.00 FWHM on the capture
live preview but it deteriorated around midnight.
Some stuff captured looking south about 45 degrees up looked promising.
I gave it away around 3am.
Still looks good tonight.
Off topic a bit mate, but did you do the hallway floorboards long-ways down the corridor or across-ways (lots more cuts) ?
Mike, there were brief periods here of 1.6-2.00 FWHM on the capture
live preview but it deteriorated around midnight.
Some stuff captured looking south about 45 degrees up looked promising.
I gave it away around 3am.
Still looks good tonight.
Off topic a bit mate, but did you do the hallway floorboards long-ways down the corridor or across-ways (lots more cuts) ?
Steve
Long ways, and correction, Guiness is gods elixor of life, not meer "beer"
Off topic a bit mate, but did you do the hallway floorboards long-ways down the corridor or across-ways (lots more cuts) ?
Steve
A few years ago I did the girls bedroom and left the edge board in the doorway ready to continue. I purchased enough boxes at the time to do the passage I just did not plan on the long gap before doing so. That board was slightly damaged at the edge but not so much that I could not join onto it and continue.
To answer your question, I matched the room it was joined to. The passage/entry is an L shape so it was always going to be wrong for one of them.
Thanks Mike and Fred.
That is the next stage, to do the daughter's room and passageway but I
wasn't sure how bad the change of direction would look.
Common sense was telling me a passageway would look far better long-ways.
I had a quick look lastnight, unfortunately I couldn't do any observing due to work commitments at 5am That along with a bright moon, really sucked... the street light which blazes light into out backyard has blown so I have a nice dark backyard, too bad I cannot enjoy it atm...
I was out ready to go, watching the Moon rise & at the same time the WIND came up and almost blew me off the verandah. So much for a night of good seeing..
Yes looks pretty good, but day time heat will affect early imaging etc.. would have to wait till the early hours of the morning I think. Give things time to cool off a bit. Peltier, yep, time to throw everything into the freezer.
That along with a bright moon, really sucked... the street light which blazes light into out backyard has blown so I have a nice dark backyard, too bad I cannot enjoy it atm...
