when did you last image

traveller (Bo) · #1 27-02-2012, 02:29 PM

Ever since I upgrade my visual rig to an AP rig, the weather has been nothing but atrocious. Cloud, clouds and the occassional rain.
The closest thing I did was taking the lot outdoors to cool down and when I try to assemble them 2 hours later, the clouds rolled in.
Two monhts at least since I got any viewing action. How long has it been for you?
Bo

Octane (Humayun) · #2 27-02-2012, 02:39 PM

October, 2011.

Sometimes I feel like selling my gear and putting the resulting funds towards a deposit on a house.

H

pgc hunter · #3 27-02-2012, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by traveller

Ever since I upgrade my visual rig to an AP rig, the weather has been nothing but atrocious. Cloud, clouds and the occassional rain.
The closest thing I did was taking the lot outdoors to cool down and when I try to assemble them 2 hours later, the clouds rolled in.
Two monhts at least since I got any viewing action. How long has it been for you?
Bo

There were 3 clear nights in a row late last week and over the weekend...

TheDecepticon · #4 27-02-2012, 03:54 PM

Aint that the truth. I just spent another few grand on another scope too!! But, I suppose if I work long enough, I could have clouds and my own verandah to watch them from.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Octane

October, 2011.

Sometimes I feel like selling my gear and putting the resulting funds towards a deposit on a house.

H

bloodhound31 · #5 27-02-2012, 04:06 PM

Hmmm... serious imaging? When did I pull that observatory down?

cventer · #6 27-02-2012, 04:07 PM

Imaged last Friday and Saturday night on weekend just gone. From Melbourne too. Sky was great with excellent seeing from my light polluted location.

Right now I have more data to process than time to do it.

traveller (Bo) · #7 27-02-2012, 04:29 PM

I should clarify, work commitments means that Sat nights are usually the main night for me. But I had to prepare for my son's BD party last Sat.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #8 27-02-2012, 04:50 PM

Seriously image - with a CCD? Late 2010.

I wonder why I'm still bothered sometimes.

rmuhlack (Richard) · #9 27-02-2012, 04:51 PM

Imaged on Friday night from Griffith (country NSW) with clear skies, zero wind and (from my limited experience) reasonable-okay seeing, with ambient temps in the mid 20s.

Only had the imaging scope for a month, but i'm learning fast. Pulling all nighters isn't something i've done since I was at uni - my friends think im crazy...my wife knows im crazy

but she's just as nerdy as i am so its all good

Kevnool (Kev) · #10 27-02-2012, 04:51 PM

Imaged on Friday night by eye as this was the night perfect

cheers

sheeny (Al) · #11 27-02-2012, 04:56 PM

Last Saturday... for solar anyway

. Last time I did any spectroscopy?... sometime in 2010

.

Al.

jenchris (Jennifer) · #12 27-02-2012, 05:06 PM

Lunar Eclipse nothing since then except for one night a fortnight ago I got to polar align and do a 6 min set of cone neb - maybe 1 1/2 hrs

Paul Haese · #13 27-02-2012, 05:15 PM

Well let me see, last week imaged three nights. This year I have produced 5 DSO images and 4 planetary images. No problem here.

Move to the central part of Australia guys. We have had more cloud but not that much to stop us from imaging. Are you guys getting a little wet over your way?

Best place in Australia to live I hear (the east coast). Lived all the way up and down that coast years ago and I still think this is the best place to live. Good luck with the rain. Might have a chance at doing some imaging later this week.

Sorry could not help it, you guys are moaning about the weather all the time.

Astronomy always is and has been weather dependent.

lepton3 (Ivan) · #14 27-02-2012, 05:48 PM

I don't often look through the eyepiece

. I don't do pretty pictures (not that there's anything wrong with that!), but I do do solar (white light), planets, supernovae, minor planets, comets, and exoplanet transits. I'm particularly interested in photometry. With that range of interests, there's always something to image.

My breakdown for the last 6 months:

September: 16 sessions
October: 7 sessions
November: 10 sessions
December: 16 sessions
January: 8 sessions
February: 14 sessions (so far)

The longest gap between sessions in the last 6 months has been 7 days. Sometimes, after 4 nights in a row, I'm actually hoping for clouds!

Spending a small fortune on hard drives to hold all the data!

-Ivan

P.S. I don't have a permanent setup - I'm pretty much lugging the 'scope out and packing it up each time.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #15 27-02-2012, 06:29 PM

Last night the sky cleared for a short while, so set up camera and tripod for some time lapse. Didn't last long though.
Before that, a couple of weeks ago to test out the 180mm macro on Eta Carina. Didn't bother posting the results though.

Poita (Peter) · #16 27-02-2012, 06:58 PM

I managed to snap a shot of Sirius on request from the forums, and imaged Saturn whilst I was at it about a week ago, but it was the Lunar eclipse before that. It has been endless clouds and rain....

multiweb (Marc) · #17 27-02-2012, 07:02 PM

Thursday & Friday last week. It was beautiful. Very wet but nice and steady, no wind. Thursday was the best of the two nights.

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #18 27-02-2012, 07:16 PM

Got a few snaps of the Sun with my new scope on Sunday a week ago, 20 minutes in total - I have not had the night scope out since the lunar eclipse in December - not my fault, the weather!!!!!

Hans Tucker (Hans) · #19 27-02-2012, 07:26 PM

18 months

mitch (Mitch) · #20 27-02-2012, 07:26 PM

Nothing since November, the weather changed for the good when I put my scope in for service

Hope to get back to it soon