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Old 25-09-2013, 09:43 PM
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Praise the seeing gods
Hallelujah!

Clear, dead calm and currently experiencing the best seeing I've seen at Wallaroo , average guide errors are consistently below 0.1 pix, guiding at 3"/pix that's better than +/- 0.3" in both axis, the guide star centroid plot clump is tiny ....lucky because I am doing a distant galaxy cluster so fingers crossed this lasts .. I am currently picking up good detail inside 1/2 arc min size galaxies

Sorry....thanks for listening just thought I'd better balance out my past impromptu complaining about wind posts

Clear skies

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Old 25-09-2013, 09:47 PM
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waiting for an image................
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Old 25-09-2013, 09:55 PM
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Rub it in why don't you, Mike Seeing and light pollution are crap here as usual...
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Old 25-09-2013, 09:55 PM
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Yup, it's very still here, and great seeing, APART from the smoke, which is NOT moving, because it's still...

Always a negative side to everything. Away from the smoke, seeing is spectacular. Saturn tonight with the kids was INCREDIBLE. Venus' phasic crescent was so readily apparent and sharply delineated.

Just great, if only there wasn't smoke to the west of me.
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Old 25-09-2013, 09:56 PM
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Seeing in Newcastle tonight actually not too bad.... have had better, but also a lot worse....
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:00 PM
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Did you sacrifice something, then did ya
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:01 PM
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He gave up all hope of NBN
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:02 PM
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Ah the NBN...yes...have we discussed that on here yet

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yeah i cant image
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:17 PM
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:18 PM
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A strong front packing high winds is on its way for tomorrow morning so I'll take it when I can get it (just like sex)

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Old 25-09-2013, 10:20 PM
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:21 PM
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my camera is in europe
That would make things hard....
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A strong front packing high winds is on its way for tomorrow morning so I'll take it when I can get it (just like sex)

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Bad mental image...
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A strong front packing high winds is on its way for tomorrow morning so I'll take it when I can get it (just like sex)

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what is a strong front
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Old 25-09-2013, 10:23 PM
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Ooooh what a shame it isn't down here right now

NEVER saw anything like this sort of seeing in New Lambton

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The forward section of a hard package
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Ooooh what a shame it isn't down here right now

NEVER saw anything like this sort of seeing in New Lambton

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grab a screen shot of the settings and readout
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Pouring rain in Melbourne town This has to be the worst year on record :/
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The moon is going to spoil the fun very soon....
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