Well it's a public holiday in Perth 8:30am and guess what the rains gone and the clouds have cleared and it's sunny. I'll take the dog for another walk shortly. Get the scope set up later on today and try for some solar observing and if the clouds stay away tonight do some DSO for a couple of hours before bed and then off to work tommorow.
I'm off work today as I can't get out. The rain has flooded the 4 causeways I need to cross to get to the main road, there are landslides across some of the roads I need to travel up the mountain, one of the main bridges is flooded between here and there, the 17km of dirt road I travel are wet and treacherous, so I'll just have to stay home and read some good books.
Boy you should see our creeks!!!! Fwwooor!!! Talk about exciting. We had a huge downpour last night and the roar of the water going over the spillway of our dam woke me up about 3 a.m.. The towns on the ridges and mountains that surround our little valley and the main local dam catchment areas (Baroon Pocket Dam) that feeds the local main creek all received in the vicinity of 150mm in the 24 hours to 9:00 a.m. this morning, most of it after dark last night.
If it wasn't so cold (I'm a woose) I'd think about taking up white water rafting.
I am also flooded in , had 71 mm overnight and a lot more today and it is still raining profusley
Weather station working well
It looks like I wont be going anywhere for a couple of days
Doing a bit of cleaning up and listening to some music at the same time
Ron
Unfortunately not too likely Dave. At this stage Somerset Dam has only received about 26mm and the upper Brisbane River area (Linville) has only had about 10mm, though Cooyar Creek that feeds into the BR did get around 20mm. Though if the rain continues heading south and west you never know. Linville has had 9mm since 9 am this morning. Fingers crossed.
Like Trevor I'm enjoying a public holiday Monday. Recovering from a full day of hard work in the garden yesterday. Moved 3 cubic metres of gravel with shovel and barrow yesterday plus lots of other gardening. Put some of the left-over pile around my observatory, looks much better now Still just a stop-gap measure until we get the surrounding area re-landscaped and properly paved etc (a while off - $$$).
So for now, chilling out in the observatory with the heater on. It's come over cloudy so outlook for tonight isn't brilliant at this stage But it's been weeks since I've done observing so I'll live
I plan to put up picture rails in my observatory later today. Have had them sine Christmas but haven't got them up yet. Two 3 metre lengths and enough cables and hooks to hang at least 30 pictures so far.
im doing nothing today... work closed due to bad weather... sitting watching NASA TV, just watched a lightning storm from the IIS... Incredible imagery...
Ron, Paul - Holy crap! 71mm overnight! the river must be howling! we got 45mm here...
Good to hear you've finally got some rain in that weather station Ron!
where the hell do you get that? that sounds awesome... no doubt it involves paying for it...
today i'm...still unemployed. looking for work... admiring my scope... but the best thing about being unemployed (maybe the only thing) is i go partially nocturnal... so there's plenty of time for late night observing! hooray!
today i'm...still unemployed. looking for work... admiring my scope... but the best thing about being unemployed (maybe the only thing) is i go partially nocturnal... so there's plenty of time for late night observing! hooray!
I'm in the same situation and, neighbours/weather permitting, I can spend most of the night outside without worrying about having to get up early.
The problem is that once into the nocturnal lifestyle, it takes a while to get out of it when you do get a job.
Do what I do, I work after-noon shifts.. work from 2:30pm - 10:30pm, get home, have dinner, watch the idiot box for a while, head outside at around 12:30 observe/photograph for a few hrs, bed by 4:30 up at 11am for work
I'm in the same situation and, neighbours/weather permitting, I can spend most of the night outside without worrying about having to get up early.
The problem is that once into the nocturnal lifestyle, it takes a while to get out of it when you do get a job.
pffffff i hear you there... i'm waiting on an interview for a (terrible) position somewhere... and you just know it's going to be at 9am... by the way, bender is awesome.
also... as long as i'm complaining about things... i'm up in the adelaide hills...so it gets cold... and all these beautiful old houses i'm around have beautiful old fire places... fire = smoke = poor viewing. i'm going to stalk house to house with a fire hose of justice...
A bit of a play around in the shed. Upholstered the seat on the Denver Chair, was a bit hard on the bum with the bare wood. Connected the parallel port on my EQ5 controller to the 'puter for the first time and tried to get it to behave. Sometimes it does and sometimes not, gave up and went inside to watch a movie or two. I love retirement How does that song go "Manyana, Manyana, Manyana is good enough for me"
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Fwwooor!!! Talk about exciting. We had a huge downpour last night and the roar of the water going over the spillway of our dam woke me up about 3 a.m.. The towns on the ridges and mountains that surround our little valley and the main local dam catchment areas (Baroon Pocket Dam) that feeds the local main creek all received in the vicinity of 150mm in the 24 hours to 9:00 a.m. this morning, most of it after dark last night. 
