On the launch pad

matt · #1 17-03-2006, 06:50 PM

Very excited tonight.

Jetstream map looks promising. Beautiful clear early evening. Sky a nice dark blue. C9.25 outside set up and cooling.

Am getting ready to star test and tweak collimation if necessary.

Jupiter's a little close to a fairly big and bright moon but I'm gonna go for it with the NexImage anyway. Will fit the dewshield and hope that provides a little contrast.

Otherwise, I'll just have some fun touring the sky

davidpretorius · #2 17-03-2006, 08:33 PM

fingers crossed

matt · #3 17-03-2006, 09:21 PM

Everything crossed here DP. It's bringing tears to my eyes!

Just had a peek through the scope. Seeing not good right now. Stars breaking down quite badly through the 13mm.

Still, tiz only early in the night.

Wind has also just picked up a little in the last half hour.

Patience, young man. Patience.

davidpretorius · #4 18-03-2006, 08:12 AM

well that sucked,

cloud as i got outside!!

matt · #5 18-03-2006, 10:43 AM

A non-event, I'm afraid.

75% humidity around 11pm and dew everywhere. Caught a few avis around 1-30 for the heck if it and the humidity had moved to >80%

Clouds rolled in around 2am

asimov (John) · #6 18-03-2006, 10:52 AM

Sorry to hear that Matt & Davo, better luck next time.

matt · #7 18-03-2006, 11:23 AM

The good news Asi, is that I managed to capture a little more detail than in prior attempts. Caught a few white ovals and more detail in the main EQ belts.

They're quite obvious after a quick run through Registax.

I'll post an image soon after a little more processing.

Appears the tweaking of the c9.25 collimation was successul. I've not been game up till now to have a crack at it but you know how it is. You don't start to get it right until you get it wrong!!!!

asimov (John) · #8 18-03-2006, 11:28 AM

Do you have bobs knobs installed, or do you just use a philips head screw driver for the collimation tweaking?

Looking forward to the pic.

matt · #9 18-03-2006, 12:09 PM

The Knobs ... mate. The Knobs!