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Old 15-06-2006, 10:01 AM
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Reasons for NOT observing/imaging...

There was reports of -9.2c in town here last night. Theres my reason (well, that and my telescope is in pieces at the moment), whats yours?

p.s. I think I may need to borrow David/Birds peltier knowledge when I get the telescope back together. Ambient? Ha!
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Old 15-06-2006, 10:06 AM
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got pretty cold here too... this morning it took ages to scrape the ice off the windscreen!
i hate winter, bring back summer!!
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Old 15-06-2006, 01:01 PM
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Hey guys, that's nearly as cool as Ballarat, remember the ice on Ken's scope, well we just dont learn and went out and did it again, last Friday.
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Old 15-06-2006, 01:46 PM
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ice on the windscreen here too this morning
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Old 15-06-2006, 02:04 PM
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Balmy 11 deg C in Brissie this morning, had to mop the sweat from my brow....

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Old 15-06-2006, 02:16 PM
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lol Dennis, the sweat that formed on my brow fused into ice and gave me an icecream headache this morning. -3.6'C. Bring on Spring I say.

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Old 15-06-2006, 02:40 PM
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I know what you mean Dennis. I went for a wander around the back yard at 12:30 last night and nearly forgot to put cloths on Scarey though 'ey Just me in a sarong, the moon and the possums. Lovely it was.
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Old 15-06-2006, 03:05 PM
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Wonder if these elevated QLD temps made NSW soporific last night?

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Old 15-06-2006, 04:04 PM
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I know what you mean Dennis. I went for a wander around the back yard at 12:30 last night and nearly forgot to put cloths on Scarey though 'ey Just me in a sarong, the moon and the possums. Lovely it was.
... I think I will stick with the cold if thats whats happening up in QLD thanks Paul! Men running around in dresses being perved on by possums..

leon: according to the BOM there was an overnight low of 0.6c in Ballarat last night. We still have -6.5c on you at the moment.
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Old 15-06-2006, 05:02 PM
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dare you to do that at duckadang paul
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Old 15-06-2006, 05:05 PM
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I won't need the sarong if I do it at Duckadang, h0ughy.
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Old 15-06-2006, 05:54 PM
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As a native North American, I mock the mild temperatures that pass for winter here in Australia ...you haven't lived until you've seen a "wind chill" of minus 180 and a "block heater" in your car is a necessary item. If you can still touch your car door without fear of sticking to it, it is not cold...

My excuse for not viewing is not the cold but long hours at work and my own laziness
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Old 15-06-2006, 06:07 PM
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Yikes - I assume -180 F which is "only" -117.778 C.

-180 C would be -292 F....

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Old 15-06-2006, 06:10 PM
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Yikes - I assume -180 F which is "only" -117.778 C.

-180 C would be -292 F....

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Yes, I should have clarified it was wind chill of - 180 F...fit for neither man nor beast!
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Old 15-06-2006, 10:20 PM
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... leon: according to the BOM there was an overnight low of 0.6c in Ballarat last night. We still have -6.5c on you at the moment.
Leon was in Snake Valley on Friday night, not Ballarat. Heaps colder out here. About -5c when Ballarat is about 1c.

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As a native North American, I mock the mild temperatures that pass for winter here in Australia ...you haven't lived until you've seen a "wind chill" of minus 180 and a "block heater" in your car is a necessary item. If you can still touch your car door without fear of sticking to it, it is not cold...
-5c or -100c, either way I ain't going out in it too often. I'm a sook about the cold.
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Old 16-06-2006, 07:47 AM
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you haven't lived until you've seen a "wind chill" of minus 180 and a "block heater" in your car is a necessary item.
I can remember the first time I went to Canada, in December actually, to a sunny place called Saskatoon (everyone asks me why I would ever go there, I was doing a training course with Telstra). They said to me "it's a good thing you didn't come here last week, it was cold (about -40C)". The temperature when I arrived was a balmy -28C through the DAY, that was without the windchill. I agree, we may think it is cold, but it ain't! But of course their summer got to a murderous 28C maximum, for a day or so!
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Old 16-06-2006, 02:18 PM
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My excuse for not observing is the fact that I'v been having so much assignments that its just not funny. On top of that I'v had to work. Its pretty much the common excuse, lol.
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Old 16-06-2006, 05:09 PM
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Finals and a sky that doesn't get dark anymore are keeping me inside.
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Old 17-06-2006, 12:35 PM
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I'm shifting house at the moment. Sheer exhaustion is preventing me from observing.
Last night I set up the scope and when I sat down with my maps to work out what to look out, I was hit by the couch's gravity well and couldn't get up again.
It's a pity cause the night was very clear.
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Old 18-06-2006, 01:13 AM
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I have an internet friend who lives in Canada - Calgary possibly - and I remember him telling me once that the 2 very large parallel mountain ranges that he lives between cause some very strange weather patterns.

-40 C in winter, +40 C in summer.

Yes, we should all be greatful to live in this beautiful country.
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