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Old 16-12-2010, 10:03 AM
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yep - first night for months that I got everything out - a whole lot of new gear got used for the first time.

The G11 guides so nicely - although a little more tweaking will help - the RA is a little seesaw-ish, maybe a balance thing. My little netbook on its homemade bracket worked well - used BackyardEOS for capture and focusing which was great. Very useful little program that one.

Had the Argo Navis fired up too - but there is still something I am doing wrong with the alignment. I had to change the encoder sense as I was doing my first star alignment in the east rather than the west - but it seemed to upset the directions later....will have to read the manual .

got about 1/2 hour total images on M42 - haven't really looked at them yet - but I was imaging on 1600 ISO so probably a bit noisy. The battery pack in the camera gave up as I was doing my darks - so only got 2 of those. Never mind - just nice to have everything set up and humming nicely

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Old 16-12-2010, 12:47 PM
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said he better get home, a massive hail/storm cell warning was out.
Then, sure enough, it was clear most of the night.
When I looked up I saw all that green in the clouds and I really thought we were going to be in for it with hail, and it got really windy, ended up just barely even being spat on thank goodness. I wonder who got it. A couple of hours later we got a lightning show and thunder right above our house that scared the jeebies out of me, and my cats ran for cover to hide. I was completely taken a back when I looked outside around 10pm and saw that it was clear! Out I went with my scope and there I stayed till 2.30. The longest time in months I've seen it stay clear for so long. I would have stayed up the whole night if I didn't have to get up in the morning, that's for sure.

Making sense out of upside down constellations that I hadn't seen for so long (south), was something else, the dummy got spat a lot, all the while telling myself what a ball I'm having - I'm sure that makes sense to all of you'll in a weird way.
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Old 16-12-2010, 01:08 PM
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Yup it makes sense, I love the air after a good storm.
Looks like another one is on its way this arvo
Beenleigh got the hail and so did the car yards in Springwood.
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Old 01-01-2011, 03:40 PM
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used BackyardEOS for capture and focusing which was great. Very useful little program that one.

Adam
Thank you for the BackyardEOS plug Adam, I appreciate the reference

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