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11-12-2004, 06:20 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Will the weather gods shine upon me..
A massive storm just went through Sydney area, i'm hoping it's clear on the other side..
Got an hour before I have to make a call on whether to call off the dark sky night I had planned with a friend and his kids.
The radar map looks promising, just depends how quickly it moves through..
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11-12-2004, 06:22 PM
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Resident Hypoxyphilliac
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth, WA
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Murphy's Law of Meteorology - bad weather always moves slower than you want it to 
After having a busy week or so and having most of the nights clouded in, it's 3:30pm here and no clouds. I might give some more wide field work a go tonight
Cheers,
Brad
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11-12-2004, 08:37 PM
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Back from Nowhere
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 199
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Forecast for melbourne
HEAPS of clouds and no wind... 
Looks like another TV night..
DD
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11-12-2004, 08:45 PM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Suffice to say, storm went through, clouds still here.
ditto loopy.
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11-12-2004, 09:05 PM
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Cloud dodger
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Hobart
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Total cloud cover here in Hobart too. Just because I was planning an observing session. 
V.
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11-12-2004, 09:25 PM
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Back from Nowhere
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Location: Melbourne
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11-12-2004, 09:41 PM
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Cloud dodger
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Hobart
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Just went outside - looks like it's clearing up!
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11-12-2004, 09:56 PM
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6EQUJ5
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Sydney
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yucky here in Sydney
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12-12-2004, 12:28 AM
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Who knows
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Blackwood South Australia
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More on the way people. Were now clouded out here in
SA.
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12-12-2004, 08:42 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Woke up at 1am, went outside and it was fairly clear to the East and North, though there was a high haze around.. I just went back to bed.
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12-12-2004, 10:02 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 4,346
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Ice,
my meager experience is that after a storm/front the seeing will be ****e, but the transperancy good. I find the best seeing (if there is such a thing in NZ) is just prior to a front.
I normally don't webcam (planetary) unless the seeing is very good, and I normally guage this by the eyepiece view first. If cracker, I do it, if suspect I don't.
Unless I want the practice of course.
Gary
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13-12-2004, 09:48 AM
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Sir Post a Lot!
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Gosford, NSW, Australia
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Apparently this rotten low system that's been hovering over the east coast for 2 weeks will move further east tomorrow, so wednesday might be the first clear night in a month!
Sorry if it comes your way Gary
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13-12-2004, 11:59 AM
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~Dust bunny breeder~
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The town of campbells
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umm... gary, after weeks of cloud any seeing is good seeing! 
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17-12-2004, 08:53 PM
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Lady Post-a-holic
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
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heya fellas! (yeah I'm a bit late replying to this thread but I just found this forum yesterday, gimme a break!)
Wasn't there a hail storm on Monday? Well, whatever day it was, the hail storm followed us home I was just about to leave work at 4:15pm when out of nowhere, hail came pouring down. My poor fiance was stuck outside waiting in the car for me to come down and so he got hailed on. After it cleared (rain was still pouring) we headed home westward and the storm followed us. About halfway home, the bad weather moved way faster than we wanted it to and it hailed on us again, though not as bad as the first time. That day was also the day Perth nearly broke the highest temperature reaching just over 41 degrees. Isn't that out where you are aragorn?
Just think about it as poor Mother Nature trying to stabalise herself after all the damage we've been causing to her.
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Sorry if it comes your way Gary
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You're not sorry iceman! 
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21-12-2004, 12:47 AM
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Back from Nowhere
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Well today was the 1st day of my 2 week holiday.....I slept till 5pm as I worked last night and was all ready for an all nighter in the back yard till the clouds rolled in at 9pm...
I'm busting to get some observing in......
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21-12-2004, 08:24 AM
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Lady Post-a-holic
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Don't worry DD, if there's one thing us observers have learned, it's patience. Last night was cloudy here too. Hope you get clear skies soon.
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21-12-2004, 09:08 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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If it's of any consequence, it's cloudy in NZ too! At least with a bright moon and longest day today, we're not missing out on too much dark sky!
One thing I learnt very early on is that this is truly of hooby of patience. Good luck 
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21-12-2004, 11:01 PM
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Back from Nowhere
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Patience Patience Patience....
Setup at 930pm..Reasonably clear....went inside to watch end of movie...
11pm.....nothing but cloud...
Baaahhh
DD
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