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Old 17-07-2009, 07:02 AM
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Graham, Glen,

Np's

I'll check back later with a weather report.

Cheers,CS
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Old 17-07-2009, 04:19 PM
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Rob it's clearing up here. We (3 people) will come down in 2 cars arriving at about 6pm.
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Old 17-07-2009, 04:26 PM
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Saturday is better for me too so I'll come just before dark tomorrow, weather permitting, if that suits.
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Old 17-07-2009, 04:48 PM
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Glen, Judith,

No prob's guys.

Weather as it is here at present. Patchy cloud coming through from
the SE, feeding off whats happening on the coast. Jet-stream 170knts
overhead.

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Old 17-07-2009, 05:00 PM
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Glen,

Having another look, are you sure you guys cant come tomorrow?
we have this now coming in from SSE at us wunderground is
predicting 20% chance of rain. And I'm still debating whether to
put the scope out.

What do you think?

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Old 18-07-2009, 05:40 AM
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wunderground is predicting 20% chance of rain tonite too - will wait for your weather update before setting out. Lovely sky earlier this morning with all my personal favourites - tho cloud came over quite fast. Maybe see you tonite.
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Old 18-07-2009, 08:24 AM
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I ended up setting up Jakes 8" and had a bit of a look but. Was pretty
muddy up there from the jet stream. Was a lot better about 3am this
morning.

Judith, wunderland has come good, by the looks. In any case I'll post
a weather report about 3:30-4:00pm

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Old 18-07-2009, 11:16 AM
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So did you guys get out last night?

I'll check in later , looking good so far
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Old 18-07-2009, 12:15 PM
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I did for about 20-30 min, too muddy we had a 170knt jet stream.
And with the threat of rain and eyeballing clouds coming at me
I didn't put the 16" out. When the jet stream is up like that there's
no point. I was using Jakes 8"... wish it had AN, that thing is a neck
killer. Still haven't used his scope for about a year. Better seeing
at around 3am this morning, i was out for about 1.5 hours quite
enjoying reminising with the old 8", it's a good size scope really.

How about you?

Looking good for today, jet stream seems to be easing

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So did you guys get out last night?

I'll check in later , looking good so far
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Old 18-07-2009, 03:24 PM
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looking ok my way ?.. I'll be leaving at 4.00 if all looks well from your end ?
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Old 18-07-2009, 03:54 PM
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All looking good here, there's still an active jet stream. Looks like a
burn off out to my west throwing smoke into the atmosphere. Should
clear by dark hopefully.

All go here

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Old 18-07-2009, 03:59 PM
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Old 18-07-2009, 04:13 PM
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Old 18-07-2009, 09:18 PM
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Final Coombell Gathering

Thanks for coming guys, great to she Judith there , hope we inspired
you a little. And you come again . Well as the title says that is it for
Coombell hope to see you in Mallanganee . We observed a number of
the usual show stoppers and glen pointed us to some nice planetaries.
Graham's 22mm t4 with OIII on Eta Carina neb along with that cresent
shaped neb Glen pointed out was fantastic. Unforunately it clouded over
fairly early which put a stop to the session.

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Old 18-07-2009, 09:36 PM
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Thanks guys. That was really fun and inspiring too. Here's to next time at Mallanganee - with cake!
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Old 19-07-2009, 04:04 AM
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Thanks Rob, the crescent was NGC3199.
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Old 19-07-2009, 11:08 AM
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Thanks guys. That was really fun and inspiring too. Here's to next time at Mallanganee - with cake!
Judith
Np's, Cake now that sounds yummy



Thanks Glen for the NGC, I think that cloud that came through was what
was stopping us nabbing NGC 2573. I'm going to give it another shot
tonight.

Cheers,CS

Rob
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Old 19-07-2009, 02:51 PM
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good luck Rob that high cloud to the south was pretty nasty to look at from up high from the local lookout probably lucky we got to see what we did . I got home had a cuppa , walked out to watch it trash here in a few minutes before I even got started.
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Old 20-07-2009, 05:30 AM
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Observed at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm last night and again at 4:00 am this morning. Nice to see M31 and M42 again.
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Old 20-07-2009, 07:55 AM
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I was out for a while last night too. NGC 2573 still eludes me, but did
manage to get A & B. Interestingly enough UM has them roughly half
a magnitude fainter. Perhaps being so close together they present a
combined better target. Not disimilar to the Antenae pair through an
8"

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