ducked outside about 15 mins ago and there was a tiny suckerhole drifting towards the sun!!! i went back in and got my stuff and raced back out agian to find the suckerhole had closed... THEN IT RAINED ON ME!
I've just brought my PST and myself back in from the rain... well, to avoid the rain .
Just spent the last half hour or so (no time to look at watches!) peeking through sucker holes, and I've got to say... I love my PST! What a great little scope!
I've really got to do some thinking about one of those PSTs
All I hear is good things
The bad thing about PST's is that they potentially lead you down a very expensive upgrade path. Although they show a whole new world of detail, I can see that there is a whole lot more disk detail that could be seen with a more expensive instrument. I think it woul be very bad for me to look through a bigger and better scope - a bit like looking though Naglers when you own plossls.
Thanks Chris. I've managed to get 13 avies, still working through them atm, converting them from raw and then sorting out the rubbish. Missed the start and finish though. Guess ya can't have everything
Well its nice and grey and windy here in Walcha! Got to my site at 4:30am......overcast and windy as hell! Spent all morning pacing around the windsock at the aerodrome, then finally some breaks came...very small ones....and i had less than 10 seconds in the breaks in the clouds to line up and focus...then wait for another break to take the pic, sometimes the breaks came 30 mins or so apart...BUT I GOT ONE GOOD SHOT! hehe Not too sure if it was exactly focussed but it was as close as i could get! have to wait till the film gets developed! I had low level fast moving cloud and a bank of high stuff! The wind was i estimated around 10-15 knots! The worst part was that about a mile away ( the other end of the runway ) there was sunshine and bliss but i knew if had packed my gear up and went there it'd be goooooooone......i got my pic about 10am......the low level cloud went and left the grey rainy stuff! lol 5 people turned up from the public viewing point of view but 4 turned up after id packed my gear up and the other one was fixing the mower for the airstrip and decided to see what was going on!
All that work and i got one photo! Just hope it turns out!
it rained heavily, then someone cut out a hole in the sky on the eastern horizon and got a very quick view of the sunrise and after 2nd contact. Seems as though in the rush and media interviews this dimwit forgot to put a memory card int he camera. RB has the images of the twit that did that.
mix of pentax *ist DS shots and canon350D (NB the pentax did the sun in this one)
hey chrissy, been watching the news. you ok with those floods n' stuff on the sunshine coast?
It wasn't too bad in my area - all we really got at home was a lot of rain, not much lightning or thunder really and just some tiny pebble sized hail (you could hardly notice the hail). I managed to sleep through most of it (had a big night tuesday night so I think I missed the worst of it. The power went off apparently though cause when I woke up all the clocks were reset.
I dunno how the rest of the sunny coast is going cause I havn't gone out yet today (been watching those darn clouds!).
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you tell em matty! 
