I stuck my head outside and saw some stars too. Though not too many.
Dragged my scope out and the sky was terrible although seems to be getting better as the night goes on.
LP is worse than I remember, I can see everything in my backyard like it was a full moon. I could not find anything except Tuc47 and that was not anything like it should be.
Just waiting for Orion to get higher then I will go back out and see what is happening.
I got out tonight! Took the 110ED out to Kuringai National Park and gave all my new eyepieces a run. Transparency wasn't great - could only just see the LMC until 11pm when it became more obvious. Had fun trying various eyepieces on the Tarantula nebula and 47Tuc. And spent some time with an old friend from the Northern Hemisphere - the Orion nebula.
Ive been able to get some imaging done, transperancy is good, seeing better than last night but still not great. Pretty windy tho, but not really bothering me at 420mm FL
Trying to get the horsey but too much LP. Will give M42 a crack.
Well I did get back out there and things looked better after midnight. There must be a bunch of lights that go off at midnight. Had a look around Orion and some other bright objects that were coming up. But it was like starting all over again trying to find my way around.
i had a nice little session last night,some small faint 14-15th mag galaxies..some nice g/c and p/n very happy...
good to see you had a chance to get your s/n alex for that brief look...
A Pentax 10 XW ....shame on you Adrian. Where is an ES 11mm 82 degree in your signature I ask???????
Matt (check my sig)
I had to see what the Pentax is all about. I knew no one who has one.
It was interesting to see the difference.
If I like the pentax I buy more and sell my ES eyepieces. If I don't like them I sell the pentax near cost and just consider it as eyepiece renting.
I have to be honest. Going from 100 degrees to 70 is a bit... claustrophobic.
Ended up slewing around a few objects and PN I havent seen before, took some subs on NGC1365 and its SN, but there was so much muddy skyglow, they are noisy as hell.
Here is a quick and dirty stack of 30mins on the Horsehead and Flame, resized of course down to 1024 x 688 and saved as JPEG, with some noise reduction done only, no real stretching done.
Eyeing off a decent CCD I think, this noise box CMOS DSLR is frustrating me....
Sorry Brisbane, this weather is my fault. I have about 10 days left of my Backyard EOS trial and I've just bought a new guidecam so I reckon there's at least a week more rain
sorry mate !!!!!!!!!!
