Thank goodness it's Friday!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Just have to express my joy that it's Friday! Have had a couple of hard weeks of redundancies at work and related stresses, and just can't wait for a break. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Roger.

[PeterM]

Take a deep breath, relax for a cuppla days Roger.
Hows your Supernova Search progressing?
Just got my new Starlight Xpress camera and now cloudy for days, sounds about right eh.
PeterM.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Onya, Roger.

It's long weekend here, too. Two in a row.

Only problem is, I'm on call, so, can't do squat!

Enjoy the weekend.

H

[Ric]

I've got heaps of flextime at work and went over the allowable limit so I've got today off as well.

It worked out well as its given me a chance to do some much needed work on my bee hives. I also discovered that the queen bee had died in one of them as well, so I had to go and collect a new swarm to incorporate into the queenless hive.

You could say I've been as busy as a bee.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Onya, Roger.

It's long weekend here, too. Two in a row.

Only problem is, I'm on call, so, can't do squat!

Enjoy the weekend.

H

Ahh, long weekend - nice! We don't have one at the start of October this year, been moved to the 28th due to CHOGM. But that coincides with the ASWA Astro Camp weekend so that'll be great when it comes

Originally Posted by PeterM

Take a deep breath, relax for a cuppla days Roger.
Hows your Supernova Search progressing?
Just got my new Starlight Xpress camera and now cloudy for days, sounds about right eh.
PeterM.

Hi Peter ... I've made great progress with my SN searching actually, very happy with where I've got to recently. Lots of iterative improvements to my selection of galaxies is paying off, and I now have pre-configured scripts for each RA. So, for a given night I just choose the starting RA and it's ready to go, stopping at twilight, wherever it gets to WRT RA. Each RA has a focus star pre-configured etc. I now have a license for Maxim's SN tool too, so have been getting used to that. I spent quite a while working with a friend on auto-detection processing, but his interest has fizzled I think, and I don't have the expertise to finish it off.

The main problem has been our relatively normal winter! The last couple were bone dry with little cloud and rain - great for astronomy, but the landscape suffered heavily. This year the last 4 months have been 90% cloud and quite a bit of rain, which I'm very very happy about, but has resulted in only a handfull of nights in the last few months for astronomy

I actually had a run going last night