Live radar of Melbourne

[DavidU (Dave)]

Seeing was average until 8pm then comes the high cloud !!!!!!!!! F
Ironing anyone?

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Family night tonight... nothing stands in the way, not even the ironing

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by DavidU

May I say it looks bloody great @1pm !

Sydney looked great then too. 7pm was really iffy. 7:30 was go home. Didn't even bother to unpack.

Melburnians don't have exclusive ownership of the clouds. They stay away on nights I leave work later or there is a lot of moon. They come when I knock off earlier or there's no moon.

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by DavidU

Seeing was average until 8pm then comes the high cloud !!!!!!!!! F
Ironing anyone?

I had the scope out at 4pm cooling, and then I saw high cloud coming in.....I was PO'd like hell, I couldn't believe it. I was about to crack it...then looked at the satpics and it turns out it was a temporary patch.

Sure enough, by around 9.30-10pm, it all cleared off. Seeing was ordinary, but I ended up hunting galaxies all night under some incredible transparency. Even the SMC was plainly visible by direct vision, the LMC bar was just glowing, it was so obvious, I've never seen it that clearly. Even the stars had this vivid glow, the transparency I got was unlike anything else I ever experienced here.

Seeing on the other hand, was awful, I was observing galaxies at high power completely unaware, until I turned to M42 and could barely resolve the trapezium at even 176x! Even at 64x, the stars were mush Normally at 64x, I can make out the E and F components! I have set a new record for crap seeing!

Worst seeing I ever got, but best transparency!

[DavidU (Dave)]

Yes it was weird. Today is................

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

Worst seeing I ever got, but best transparency!

[pgc hunter]

The whole week ahead and likely more is going to be wall to wall cloud and rain

It's clear here at 2pm but forecast is for stupid rain tonight, typical Melbourne

It's no coincidence that the word "melbourne" rhymes with the word "rain".

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Just to make you Mexicans feel better, about an hour ago we had 10mm of rain and hail in about 5 minutes.

[pgc hunter]

looks half decent outside atm, just not sure about going out just yet as there is cloud on the western horizon. If it is clear in the next couple of hours, I might just get out there.

[DavidU (Dave)]

I'm out looking at Jupiter, reasonably steady and improving.

[pgc hunter]

wall to wall bloody cloud here

Satpic suggests it might clear in the next couple of hours, we'll see. If so, it's one last hurrah before days and days of rain and wintry depression