Weather is great out here at Broken Hill, been a cool day and clear as a bell, plan on imaging it every ten min's, hope to make an animation of the whole event.
Regards
Trevor
Hi Trevor,
Yes, Sydney is astronomically stuffed (around 9.45 I felt rain). Good luck, I can't wait to see your movie.
I'm off to bed, kicking and screaming. I'll set the alarm for an hour or two and see if it miraculously clears, but it's not looking promising
here is the current view over us - just pack it up now - nothing to see except cloud right the way back to the range - bet it will be gone by early morning
Just Clouded over completly in Gippsland,Vic, clouds moved in at 10:40pm
it has been clear skies since around 2pm and it had to close in 20minutes before partytime,
I'm off to bed, kicking and screaming. I'll set the alarm for an hour or two and see if it miraculously clears, but it's not looking promising
SAME HERE!!!! It was bloody clear all evening, and guess what, after I drag my 12" dob outside, it decides to cloud over, MELBOURNE STYLE, so I miss out on this event. NATURALLY
SCREW MELBOURNE AND ITS FREAKING EVIL PATHETIC CLOUDY HELLHOLE OF A CLIMATE
Don't worry Iceman, you are far from being alone......... ..... the perils of living ON DA COAST
Yes I am now co0mpletely drunk and have pigged out on some homemade fries....gotta do something to quell the rage.
Clear here. Watching Titan's shadow cross near the pole - just on the edge of the planet!
You are not exactly far from me, and I'm bloody jealous. Good to see you are getting something atleast, while us coastal dwellers suffer big time. Atleast I can live in the comfort that more of these events will occur during this "edge on" apparition of Saturn.
I got a look of it up here (after 3 months living down in Sydney without my telescope!) Just beautiful! It's the first time I've seen Saturn since its last season - those edge on rings are beautiful! The shadow was a neat touch. =)
Set Up early, but have had nothing but troublefirst with Alt encoder giving wrong reading, fixed that then the Azimuth played up, couldn't fix it
All the while intermittant clouds kept covering Saturn and Lullin so called it a night
Set Up early, but have had nothing but troublefirst with Alt encoder giving wrong reading, fixed that then the Azimuth played up, couldn't fix it
All the while intermittant clouds kept covering Saturn and Lullin so called it a night
I sympathise with you mate. I'm sorry to hear of your troubles Hopefully next time it all works out.
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Originally Posted by erick
Yep, Titan and shadow both visible in moments of good seeing! Brilliant! Not so good is intermittent clouds now.
I'm glad you saw *something* atleast. I will now pour another glass to drink away my sorrows.
Very, very dissapointed... setup at 10:45 and it was partly cloudly...thought I'd at least be able to glimpse it through by 10" Dob which I'd brought outside. But nooooooo, Melbourne's fickled weather wins again...
I'd planned to photograph the event like many others too....but actually I did end up taking a few shots, here's the best of them : Link
Very, very dissapointed... setup at 10:45 and it was partly cloudly...thought I'd at least be able to glimpse it through by 10" Dob which I'd brought outside. But nooooooo, Melbourne's fickled weather wins again...
I'd planned to photograph the event like many others too....but actually I did end up taking a few shots, here's the best of them : Link
Not happy Jan
sorry to hear that andrew, you fell victim to the crap just like me, but it seems the entire SE / E coast fell victim to crap this evening. I;'m sure there will be a few more titan transits this edge-on apparition, which will be visible to even the coast suffering from our devestating climate. I'm not prepared to wait another 15 years to witness these rare events
I hate melbourne's weather like hell, but basically the entire east coast was crap this evening.
