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Waning Crescent 18.2%
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22-06-2014, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Rockingham WA Australia
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Excellent seeing in Perth tonight
Beautiful Mars in my 18 at the moment best I've seen it in my backyard for ages, get your scopes out. 
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22-06-2014, 08:43 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
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Yes, I was very tempted.
Choice boiled down to setting up the scope and sitting in the cold, or watching the F1 in the warmth... guess which option won 
Hoping it's going to be just as good tomorrow night.
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22-06-2014, 08:58 PM
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what's an F1???! 
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22-06-2014, 09:21 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: perth w.a.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sn1987a
what's an F1???! |
its the same as the WC but on vallium!
pat
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22-06-2014, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Perth, WA
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It's looking really good! Pity all my gear is in pieces for a bit of r&r. Oh well I snooze, I lose!
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22-06-2014, 09:52 PM
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If you guys could see the Mars I'm seeing right now there would be a lot of Holy **** going on!
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22-06-2014, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Typical when home cloudy, away working clear
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22-06-2014, 10:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brisbane
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You lucky, lucky b*stards. Enjoy it while you can!
Edit: According to the jetstream chart there's a little hole of slow wind (<40kts) over Perth right now.
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22-06-2014, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Rockingham WA Australia
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Africa on a peach pink sea with frosty icing top and bottom 
Update: It's not every night you can put the 3.7 Ethos on Saturn but tonights the night!
Last edited by sn1987a; 22-06-2014 at 11:55 PM.
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23-06-2014, 04:14 PM
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Location: Sunshine Coast Australia
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I have been waiting for about 3 weeks to view mars, its eitherraing or the jet stream is high. ( 90 knots tonight )
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23-06-2014, 04:17 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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hmm, didn't get a chance to do imaging last night ... shame !
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23-06-2014, 04:31 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
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Last night when I checked Skippysky for tonight, things were looking good.
It doesn't look so good now (Jetstream ~60kn)
Should still be ok for me with my short FL stuff(~450mm), hopefully.
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23-06-2014, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: margaret river, western australia
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I don't live too far from you Simon, but I am clouded out as usual.
raymo
Last edited by raymo; 23-06-2014 at 06:10 PM.
Reason: missing word
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23-06-2014, 06:17 PM
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Old Man Yells at Cloud
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by raymo
I don't live too far from you Simon, but I am clouded out as usual.
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Yes ~200km is enough for a world of difference with weather.
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23-06-2014, 08:40 PM
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Looking very good in the hills tonight. FWHM 2.98.
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23-06-2014, 08:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Mandurah Western Australia
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Beautiful clear day but I want to know who God's name ordered the cloud cover for tonight? I mean Mandurah is only 70Km south of Perth and this is just not fair...
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23-06-2014, 10:29 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian3.
Beautiful clear day but I want to know who God's name ordered the cloud cover for tonight? I mean Mandurah is only 70Km south of Perth and this is just not fair...
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Hmm, could be fog/sea fog. In which case all the better for me, if fog blocks out the light pollution on "the flats"
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23-06-2014, 11:56 PM
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No cloud here but I got home from work at 7:30 and had lost all enthusiasm for setting up.
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24-06-2014, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrB
No cloud here but I got home from work at 7:30 and had lost all enthusiasm for setting up.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who has that trouble. Last night I was able to get things going.
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24-06-2014, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Mandurah Western Australia
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By 9.30pm last night the sky above Mandurah was clear with nair a twinkle to be seen. BUT the beginning of the next ice age took its toll on my intentions.
Time to buy some serious winter wear even if it is only for a few months...the prospect of anatomical depletion demands I do just that. The clear skies are here for another day (night) or two.
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