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Old 05-09-2016, 02:08 AM
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when fog is your friend

Fog/low cloud has desended on Canberra and my sky out here at Wallaroo has gone dark as! The glow to the south east from Canberra, has all but dissapeared Woohoo, feels like I am at Wiruna or Coona niiice...look at all those staars....seeing is pretty good too...

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Old 05-09-2016, 02:32 AM
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Doh!!...now its here (cruddy low cloud) oh well, was pretty cool while it lasted ...time to shut down....and go home I think ......

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Old 05-09-2016, 07:02 AM
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Maybe a few large industrial fans would help next time to keep low clouds at a distance?
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Old 05-09-2016, 07:51 AM
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I've been totally fogged out twice in two days, me no likey fog
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Old 05-09-2016, 09:41 AM
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Looks like it was a very brief friendship, Mike
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Old 05-09-2016, 12:24 PM
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Maybe a few large industrial fans would help next time to keep low clouds at a distance?
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I've been totally fogged out twice in two days, me no likey fog
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Looks like it was a very brief friendship, Mike
It was bloody fog alright descended in no time, the headlamp always reveals it well. The awesome dark sky before hand for the 30min of friendship, was a bit freaky though, perhaps a bit like the darkness that descends during a total solar eclipse? I actually hardly ever get fogged out at Wallaroo as I am perched up on a bit of a hill.

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Old 05-09-2016, 07:17 PM
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Damn Mike, you need to get one of those new fangled CMOS cameras, could have gotten say a hundred subs of 10 secs?

Bloody Mother Nature is teasing us a lot lately.

Methinks a crowd-funded amateur space based telescope is in order- I hear 'launch' costs for a SpaceX rocket are going dirt cheap, hahaha...
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Damn Mike, you need to get one of those new fangled CMOS cameras, could have gotten say a hundred subs of 10 secs?

Bloody Mother Nature is teasing us a lot lately.

Methinks a crowd-funded amateur space based telescope is in order- I hear 'launch' costs for a SpaceX rocket are going dirt cheap, hahaha...
It was good conditions to about 2:30am so I can't reeeally complain I guess, plus I finished my target exposure - 18hrs, longest yet with my AG12 and collected in three nights

Yes watching the latest Space X launch made me think IMAGINE if that had happened on an Apollo launch pad, how that iconic footage of a slow thunderous Saturn V rising from the pad, complete with disengaging hoses and ice falling off... would have been different Werner's brilliance and NASA's almost 5% of federal budget funding pit probably helped

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