it might make you cry... in melbourne (60ks east of) its a beautiful sunset , calm air, clear skies tonight i am going into the observatory for a pic or two.... magelanic clouds look promising, also havent tried ngc 300 yet .... later possibly ngc 1365 although after jases effort it could look a little plain.so many choices clear skies.....might log off before you can abuse me
well I live not more than 5 km from Lee, and we had a BBQ this evening and I got out the big binos and a camera tripod and went inside to wash up. there was not a cloud in the west when I went out about 15 minutes ago - now itis wall to wall cloud and I am not happy
I'm all set up for a look at the East, found a spot next to the fence where the darn street light is behind the houses. Next door has just decided to go out to the garage, spotlight on the house shining right in my eyes, looks about 250 watts. Grrrrrrr!!!
Oh well, maybe they'll go to bed soon.
A number of our club just came back from The Oaks after wall-to-wall cloud hung over us from dusk till 9:30pm. It's quite a trip out there from home so we weren't too happy packing up.
As soon as we'd gone through the entire procedure and started out the gates to head home...voila - crystal clear sky.
It was beautiful and clear at home tonight, and up till 9pm on my way to work. I'm hoping it's clear around 1:00am so I can sneak out for a look at Holmes, if I can find a good spot with a view to the North.
yep dewy here too i just spent the last hour doing the horsehead, earlier doig some work in smalll mag cloud focus spot on .... check images looking a little soft...... dew on secondary....going to bed!
yep you are not wrong about it being dewy - everything was wet when I packed up - acutally it was wet 30 minutes after i brought out the scope and gear last night. So what did you image Lee?
Spent a hour or two on the tarantula, had to try out the new Outback which arrived on Friday
Happy with the luminance frames, but I think she started dewing about then, so the RGB frames were ordinary - didn't think to check the objective until I had finished and was going to shoot some longer exposures..... rookie mistake!
Just made a dew heater from some nichrome wire though.... bring on the dew!
Did you get anything h0ughy???
Spent a hour or two on the tarantula, had to try out the new Outback which arrived on Friday
Happy with the luminance frames, but I think she started dewing about then, so the RGB frames were ordinary - didn't think to check the objective until I had finished and was going to shoot some longer exposures..... rookie mistake!
Just made a dew heater from some nichrome wire though.... bring on the dew!
Did you get anything h0ughy???
