Yeah she can laugh now, wait 'till summer kicks in.....
Exactly!! I've told her to wait until Nov-Dec. I've always found that the worst time of year. The temperature rises but more importantly the humidity kicks in and I have trouble sleeping. I'm tired and grumpy (and apologies in advance for those flame posts ). By Jan-Feb I'm used to it and back to my cheery self .
Here we go again!! By 9.30pm last night it was one deg. and we woke up to -4.5 deg. C, white everywhere.......
Haven't seen this since I left home in the Otways (Vic.).......
I meditate (briefly) in an office type room that is small and easily warmed by the same heater here at home (thermostat), yet it feels so much colder these past few weeks (this year). I mean colder yes but it's heated the same way. I still get 22C in that room.
Quite sure despite temp. being equal if the longwave out is massive proportionally to our warm short wave energy in then we feel the cold much much more (and deeper) it just hasn't been recognised yet.
...can't resist posting this image from yesterday morning, it was about -4C or so for the last hour of imaging...
cheers, Bird
Bird, how do you defrost the scope without get all the gear wet? i.e the mirror/s, camera, lenses, puter etc.
I ask because the other night that I went out, my scope became heavily dewed. I didn't notice really until I put my hand on the tube and it was soaking wet!
Just the usual Melbournecast here with extreme cold. The coldest and cloudiest winter I have ever experienced in my 20 years in this cloudy abyss. Clearly, global warming is at work.
Last edited by pgc hunter; 02-07-2010 at 11:07 AM.
Bird, how do you defrost the scope without get all the gear wet? i.e the mirror/s, camera, lenses, puter etc.
I ask because the other night that I went out, my scope became heavily dewed. I didn't notice really until I put my hand on the tube and it was soaking wet!
Bartman
I don't :-( Everything gets soaked, but it all seems to survive. The heater on the secondary keeps it clear, and the primary is 1.8m down the tube so it's normally out of reach of the dew and stays clear. The camera generates a few watts of heat and keeps itself clear as well, but everything else gets soaked.
I normally leave the scope uncovered for a few hours after unrise so it can dry out before I cover it up :-)
). By Jan-Feb I'm used to it and back to my cheery self 
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