How times change

[TrevorW]

Who's partying tonight or who's imaging

not anymore a quite one for us might have a beer or two

well I'm outside on a balmy Perth night intent on getting my alignment spot on for a change may image or not just depends on whether the easterly starts blowing a gale as we are expecting 37 here tommorow

happy new year and all the best whatever you do tonight

[snowyskiesau]

My NYE is pretty much over. Watched the 9:00PM Kids fireworks but expect I'll be in bed before the midnight session.
Tomorrow means getting back to eating properly rather than excessively

Enjoy the rest of the year.

[pgc hunter]

I've got my slab of bourbon and coke, 10 pack smirnoffs and my family guy dvd box set to keep me company tonight......

never mind a nice warm night to enjoy a few drinks 27 degrees atm nice after 41 degrees today

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

My kids are inside watching movies, and I'm outside at the scope.
What a way to end the year!!
It's very mild tonight, with a bit of a breeze, gusty at times. So I've got the Nifty 50 on the Canon riding piggy back.
On to my second target of the night.
Happy New Year!!

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Missed it entirely!!!
I'm more of a spring solstice guy m'self anyway.
Clear as I've seen all year here, plus warm and calm to boot.
Couldn't pass up the opportunity for a good look-see!(anyway Carron was asleep at 10:30 following an afternoon of "refreshments" with some work colleagues ).
Here's hoping its an omen for a great 2011 after a truly dismal 2010.
Happy new year all.
Peter

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Was too hot to do anything tonight!

Just sat around sweating and watched the midnight fireworks on TV.
Still too hot to sleep so I'm posting in here

Happy New Year everyone

[TrevorW]

As predicted the easterly started to blow so imaging was out got frustrated with Alignmaster the EQ6 is a bugger to adjust when loaded gave up in the end reset my ALT manually and used Stellarium to align my scope so eventually got my goto working spot on with Stellarium(scope) every target nearly dead center spent an hour cluster jumping with a 35mm 2" EP on my ED80, haven't done visual work for yonks was a pleasant change

[zipdrive (Dave)]

I just finished packing up my gear, too windy!!

Happy New Year to all!!!

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Was too hot to do anything tonight!

Just sat around sweating and watched the midnight fireworks on TV.
Still too hot to sleep so I'm posting in here

Happy New Year everyone

IN Mildura it got to 36 degrees at 1am according to the BOM.

Now that is some serious bourbon+coke weather

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

As predicted the easterly started to blow so imaging was out got frustrated with Alignmaster the EQ6 is a bugger to adjust when loaded gave up in the end reset my ALT manually and used Stellarium to align my scope so eventually got my goto working spot on with Stellarium(scope) every target nearly dead center spent an hour cluster jumping with a 35mm 2" EP on my ED80, haven't done visual work for yonks was a pleasant change

I gave up to about 11:00pm wind too strong and scope only managed a single shot of M42 and a couple of Jupiter shots still processing ATM, Everything blew all over the place.

Happy new year

[Osirisra (Ken)]

Spent all day starring at weather and wind reports hoping the gale winds would die down so I could have a nice long viewing session but no such luck.

Here's hoping for plenty of still and clear nights in 2011 for all!!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by kinetic

quite the boring hi tech family here Trev,
We are all out on the verandah...me laptop...kids in pool...wife on
her netbook...dog has her pork bone...rabbits munching the lawn .
Lovely 25C night here...sky looks brilliant for imaging but not in the mood!

HNY all!

Edit...some Xmas light fun. Sorry about the hijack Trev.

Steve

Ah yes, nice scene....

Cool Jackson Pollock photo too

Mike

[Liz]

Watched and giggled through 'The Hangover' early, then, armed with champers, it was down with the neighbours for BIG bonny on the beach, and a few firecrackers.
Cloudy with a little shower of rain to cool us down, then to bed,a sleep by 1030.
Happy New year ... one and all.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Partying last night under the skies. Beautiful night, good company, plenty of home made BBQ pizzas and fresh drinks. Will probably image tonight if the weather holds. Then we started the sparkles and kids had a ball blowing stuff.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by mswhin63

I gave up to about 11:00pm wind too strong and scope only managed a single shot of M42 and a couple of Jupiter shots still processing ATM, Everything blew all over the place.

Happy new year

Certainly was blowing around a lot. Still though, feels good to get some pics rather than no pics

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Who's partying tonight or who's imaging

not anymore a quite one for us might have a beer or two

I set up the scope at 5pm-ish, aligned on jupiter and left it running for the night. Had a few family members over for dinner. Was all very nice.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

As predicted the easterly started to blow so imaging was out got frustrated with Alignmaster the EQ6 is a bugger to adjust when loaded gave up in the end reset my ALT manually and used Stellarium to align my scope so eventually got my goto working spot on with Stellarium(scope) every target nearly dead center spent an hour cluster jumping with a 35mm 2" EP on my ED80, haven't done visual work for yonks was a pleasant change

I went out to check on the scope before going to bed at 1am-ish. Boy was the wind blowing around! I heard a brach fall while outside, and I hadn't timed the photographic targets quite right so most were behind trees and hence being skipped (I'm currently imaging through a narrow gap to the north) so considering the risk of debris and low rate of successful pics (15 new objects) I packed it up for the night. Was a good choice, meant I could sleep in until 8:30 without worrying about the sun gettting on the scope.

I am enjoying the clear nights we're having, just a shame about that easterly.