Went to -31.6 at Davis Station, Antarctica 1990, and camera battery kept dying tryng to take long exposures of auroriae. The put camera in plastic bag to go inside to prevent condensation...then repeat procedoure adnauseum.
Bugger that! LOL....i bet you wished you had a full manual camera......or at least a remote battery pack!
On wednesday around 3 weeks ago on it hit -5 here in bathurst. The frost was dropping at around 8pm. I've been Skiing in -8 with -12 windchill in a blizzard. The observing felt colder, I guess because you dont move around as much.
minus 8 Celcius near Braidwood a couple years ago doing astronomy...it was very very painful! Otherwise, non astronomy around minus 30 in Quebec Canada (includes windshill factor).
I love the cold of winter only for the fact that it keeps my DSLR nice and cool!
frank
I can recall -11° driving through Cooma about 6am during august in winter 2002.....car heater not working either. Then I accidentally hit the windscreen washers...so I had to get out and scrape the ice off that instantly formed. Living out on Captains Flat Road east of Canberra near the Molonglo Radio Telescope (visible from Kitchen window), regularly would be around -8° on winter mornings being approx 800m alt, some 250m higher than Canberra. No car heater meant hot water bottle as I drove along observing frost covered cattle.
Just a few weeks back whilst skiing at Perisher Blue, the temperature was -3° but the wind chill was taking it back to about -20°.
Thredbo in 1987 I experienced wind chill of -23° going up the chair lift in heavy snow.
-30 i think it got to, wearing a pressue demand mask, watching some ninja boys doing a halo jump from the back of a c130, was damn cold, even in the gear we we're wearing
