Qualia

I guess next week will be hot and muggy here, Shaun but today, the clouds cleared. I have to do the weeks shopping but when I get back I'll post up a few sketches.

Sounds excellent Rob, I was in North Italy last week and the weather was lovely...not over warm but some lovely clear days.

A couple more weeks of this and the pool will be warm enough for a swim. :) Good to hear you are enjoying the nice weather Rob.

Qualia,we are looking forward to your reports and maybe some more great sketches!

Wot he said :)

I am usually asleep within seconds of my head hitting the pillow. I fave up coffee once and fell asleep at my desk - mid sentence (twice lol )

fave = gave

Good stuff, occasionally going sleep deprived to that extent has to be done. Just once in a while is fine, yet personally it would take me days (and nights) to recover from that episode.

I dunno - Rob can always use it as a Snorkel if the rain keeps on pouring :-)

You should live in Wales, it's like that.....every 72 hours:-)

Thanks for the funny replies. It's all gone a bit mad :-) Rain's stopped and now winds blowing around at 72km/h!

Ordering some Baader solar filter sheets in a fortnight, with the other half promising to make me a filter for my refractor and DSLR's :) Never tried solar obs before

You are not kidding Rob, its a cracker for both Ha and white light.

Damn I have been busy DIY today, missed the whole show. Looks good for the week though so hopefully tomorrow :)

Ditto fella,rubbish transparency and the moon was a pain.

Shame Qualia - would have thought the cold desert skies were just ideal...?

Yeah, it is wierd, but even the forecast page said seeing would be bad and I couldn't work out why this would be so. I think it may have had something to do with the winds. Anyway, tonight was a lot better, but soooo cold. Desert-arid lands really do get chilly. Anyway, a fun, if short evening was had around Lyra.

Anyway, the sights last night were phenomenal. The only shame being my boots failed to keep my feet warm after a couple of hours and that with the finder all frozen up and out of action I couldn't easily star-hop.

Sounds a good time you had Qualia. I'm still waiting on a good clear night here to give my new telescope a try. Funny because we had a few good clear nights before I got the telescope lol.

sounds like you had a great night, i cant remember last time i had a good session

So jealous! Does it cool down much at night, or do you find the seeing is affected by heat radiating off at night?

No, their snow whites offspring.. ;(

Hehehehe. It was meant to be a serious question... :-)

Isn't it something to do with the core crystalising carbon over time..

Then why am i sitting indoors every night screaming at the sky to clear

Rpwan, just give your secondary a few jolts, remove the spider, collimate and start again, keeps you sane. Some have even resorted to putting wall paper on their dob mounts :D

It's the whole Universe !

Good Stuff :), did you get some observing done with your 'Moonshane' Dob?

Goodo, at last eh. It is blowing a gale here and the rain is at about 40' to the ground, feels like November.

It's tradition and has been passed down though the ages.

I suggest we break this silly cycle :D

:D I think it will be easier to find the answer for light speed travel..

I preffer to think of it as 'image processing weather'.

Reading and posting on SGL all night weather fo rme :)

well the uk has had alot of good kind of weather this year then !

It looks posh and it looks like is going to make life easier sketching and carrying gear.

Lovely! Really look forward to seeing you next sketches then :)

Very good mounts i have one, superb for visual, just take a little time getting the tube balanced

LOL - welcome back, Qualia

LOL - welcome back, Qualia

Thanks, mark. Good to be back and hopefully this week will be able to get some viewing down although I won't be able to post.

good to see you are back Qualia

Welcome back Roberto :)

Thank you. Gracias a todos :-)

Welcome back :D

Welcome back!

good to have you back!!!

Wow! 5am - I hope you have time for a little siesta later.

of course, just had an hour on the couch

Just had one myself, and I woke up 11am! Good for the complexion, I'm told :-)

nice one rob, had a good night on saturn thursday using my 5mm pentax lovely strong views, but there was a slight double , found out i was looking through the mesh on the kids trampoline lol

Thank you for your kind comments :-) Luke, I hope you'll be able to salvage something from the images. Faulsky, two Saturns can't be a bad thing :-) Gerry, for once I think I was able to get a hint of the seeing you get in Canada :-) Shaun, thank you :-)

Thanks, Rob, images should be fine, I took some new ones to replace the blurry ones! It meant I had to play dodge the clouds for a bit, but lucky escape :) No time for such schoolboy errors during the week!

I think an hour from now.

Cheers Qualia, I will enjoy.

Shows over here now.

Lovely! Did you get a chance to do any sketching?

If it's around twelve am you will have the first ever partial solar eclipse in the dark...;)

Qualia, off topic I know, but couldn't seem to get a message to you - just wanted to thank you personally for your advice on the last thread I opened! It was much appreciated! :-)