The Clear Outside app is showing some signs of promise for the Bathurst area later tonight. Moon rise not until 02:05am.
Maybe - yes/no?
Good luck mate
For me up at Tinderry its Thursday night, thing is of course, different models say different things and that in itself drives me bloody spare... ...luckily its a lovely place to go, so although that aspect is wearing a bit thin as a consolation for not being able to do astro...theeere is always stuff to do around the property during the day...which Saturday should be nice and sunny for...great.
Of course, if I spent a not insignificant amount more and made it (reliably, ie. its about a 70km drive away if anything goes wrong) fully remote, via the internet and setup my all sky camera, I could of course take advantage of many of the shorter clear periods that do occur up there, even in this current La Nina affected pattern in the SE of Oz...maybe necessity is the mother of invention (or makes one a thrill seeker and prepared to actually pose the question to the wife ), or something like that...
Sigh....I fear I will just keep complaining about it, hoping that will make me feel better... until an El Nino occurs and every night is clear again...
can't beat a good live feed of weather satellites imo, you can make your own views on what's in store... esp. if you get sometime in on the visual display and what is actually is happening in your area to help correlate data to actual.
particulates and RH at various heights is a must imo.
For me up at Tinderry its Thursday night, thing is of course, different models say different things and that in itself drives me bloody spare... ...luckily its a lovely place to go, so although that aspect is wearing a bit thin as a consolation for not being able to do astro...theeere is always stuff to do around the property during the day...which Saturday should be nice and sunny for...great.
Of course, if I spent a not insignificant amount more and made it (reliably, ie. its about a 70km drive away if anything goes wrong) fully remote, via the internet and setup my all sky camera, I could of course take advantage of many of the shorter clear periods that do occur up there, even in this current La Nina affected pattern in the SE of Oz...maybe necessity is the mother of invention (or makes one a thrill seeker and prepared to actually pose the question to the wife ), or something like that...
Sigh....I fear I will just keep complaining about it, hoping that will make me feel better... until an El Nino occurs and every night is clear again...
Mike
Hmmm, your forecast is looking ok so keeping fingers crossed for Thursday. I'm sure that the time will come when the full automation will happen and you will be able to enjoy the benefits of remote imaging. In the meantime, Eagleview has been a great project and I for one have been enjoying all of the pics.
It is clearing here so maybe later..but honestly I can't think straight because of irregular sleep and not much of it so a dud night would be ok..two nights in a row..I can feel the effect and I find myself just staring at something in a brain dead way...
But if it's clear I will be out there..never miss a chance...
Alex
It is clearing here so maybe later..but honestly I can't think straight because of irregular sleep and not much of it so a dud night would be ok..two nights in a row..I can feel the effect and I find myself just staring at something in a brain dead way...
But if it's clear I will be out there..never miss a chance...
Alex
Alex, you've only got one life brother, take care of it...
Hmmm, your forecast is looking ok so keeping fingers crossed for Thursday. I'm sure that the time will come when the full automation will happen and you will be able to enjoy the benefits of remote imaging. In the meantime, Eagleview has been a great project and I for one have been enjoying all of the pics.
Thanks Roddles, all good fun, even with all the whinging and whining
Finally got some decent clear sky time last night, woohoo! Bout time! and it was DARK was great standing on the dome deck and looking at the 180 deg spread of the Milky Way hugging the horizon right around from Orion in the East, through Crux in the South and right around to Sagittarius in the West, looked amazing! It (well "I") was a bit slower than I would have liked, given the frustrated patience displayed in the last few months and with some technical difficulties thrown in, of course ... but in the end I managed to gather 3 hrs of excellent data before the clouds rolled in around 2am, I was stocked . Best thing was, the seeing was fabulous again, that's three imaging sessions now, the first two were micro sessions really but all have revealed good seeing and last night was the best so far, very happy It so far appears to be a good site, seeing wise, phew! after the many visual sessions enjoyed with my 12" Dob plus these three imaging sessions now, it would appear that the altitude does make a difference so far haven't experienced one night of bad or even average seeing really (touch wood) ...just need La Nina to F-Off and it'll be hammer and tongs
Hope to get more data soon of course...fingers crossed...
Great news Mike ..it has been very enjoyable following you on your journey.
I am looking forward to your images.
Alex
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Excellent news Mike. Nothing like a beautiful clear night to lift the spirts I say
Thanks guys it was wonderful walking around the new dome while the gear inside finally got to do an actual sequence and as each 10min sub came down they just kept getting sharper, I think 0.84"/pix might not be a fine enough image scale any more, to get the best out of the seeing up here can't believe it
Great news Mike
Makes all the hard work , effort and of course expense worthwhile when you score some good clear nights
Had a fantastic 1st year with my Dome in 2021 , 2022 has been abysmal, I’ve only imaged out the Dome 3 times all year , most of my time spent in Sydney
Getting back down the South Coast for new year and most of January
Fingers crossed La Niña is buggered off by then
Clear Skies
Martin
I openned up last night and was able to do some 120 second exposures which is a first for a long time. There was wind but clearly it has been moisture causing seeing problems here for months. Even at 30 seconds things were jumping all over the place in the past....Nevertheless a fog rolled in a midnight which given how my last all nighters just about destroyed me was a good thing as I closed up and went to bed...
...luckily its a lovely place to go, so although that aspect is wearing a bit thin as a consolation for not being able to do astro...theeere is always stuff to do around the property during the day...which Saturday should be nice and sunny for...great.
), or something like that...
It so far appears to be a good site, seeing wise, phew! after the many visual sessions enjoyed with my 12" Dob plus these three imaging sessions now, it would appear that the altitude does make a difference 
so far haven't experienced one night of bad or even average seeing really 
(touch wood) 
