Joint amateur + HST imaging Monday morning

[davidpretorius]

2.2 degrees ambient mirror 3.2

8/10 at times. 250x, detail in the bands!

[davidpretorius]

from just after midnight, seeing is good

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Hi Asi
How did you go with Joop last night ?
I was up at Mt Martha on the Mornington Peninsulla with the NACAA crowd last night.
When I left at Midnight there was some determined Jupiter imaging going on with the clubs 18" beast !

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice Dave, looking forward to the final!

[Robert_T]

I was a bit slow on the uptake with this one, though as it happens Brisbane was pretty clouded out this morning so no loss. Wouldn't mind taking part in any future such World Wide amateur collaboration though - nice to be part of something bigger.

Onya DP, you're looking good

[davidpretorius]

came in to recharge batteries, post the pic at around 1am. Went back out at 2am to get ready for 3.45am.

where did those clouds come from and thick!!!

waited 45minutes and they were not going to budge.

sorry bird, extremely dissapointed that conditions were against us in what is such a great event.

I am excited that we have the skills to be part of some BIG (Hubble no less), but sad that i could not contribute!

[asimov (John)]

No good Ian. Never even got to take the dust covers off the scope. Had the scope outside till just after midnight, but I had an easterly breeze & high thin cloud that got gradually thicker. When I got up this morning, it had been raining for several hours by the looks.

Sorry mate, that was the long version of 'Na! did no good Ian!'..

[asimov (John)]

You still got a nice image there Dave. No GRS but we can't be lucky 100% of the time, it would take all the fun out of it!

[davidpretorius]

from chris go on CN
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Hello Guys,

This is and tonights the night. Here are the schedule for Hubbles imaging session with the Red Oval BA.

April 16, 2006 18:17-19:06UT

April 17, 2006 03:52-04:45UT

This will be the joint imaging schedule of my group headed by Dr Imke de Pater. I would like to request for HIGH RESOLUTION images during this joint session. I am currently doing a study on how well our amateur images measure with HST. If you have high resolution images please send these to me at: agonggo@hotmail.com

Regards,
Chris

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so that means we are up again tonight???

03:52-04:45UT + 10 = 1:52 - 2:45 AEST is that right???

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

UT = GMT, therefore 03:52UT + 10 hours = 01:52pm AEST, or 1352hrs AEST, which was approximately 1 hour ago methinks?

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

thanks dennis, yes, i have just had the confirm from chris go, this is setup for the other side of the world.

UT, , cant everything be tassie time ie nice and slow!!!

[matt]

Poor old DP...

Still can't get that noggin around UT???

It's OK mate. I wouldn't have a clue about peltiers. All evens out, eh???

[davidpretorius]

UT = UTE without an E!!!

sun is up in day, sun is not up at night!!!

why do they try and complicate me!