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  1. pipnina

    Weather forecast has been lying for 3 days straight now! It keeps claiming "Excellent" visibility all night long but observation have never been any better than "Good". Oh well, at least i can get the scope out!

  2. pipnina

    Got my first look at the ring nebula today... I was surprisingly underwhelmed. But then it was in the most light polluted part of the sky and transparency was less than desirable. Mag 4.2 was a struggle. I'll have to try again next year.

    1. Dinsdale Piranha

      Dinsdale Piranha

      Deep sky objects are quite often visually under whelming. But remember how far away they are and the fact that only a select few people will EVER see the object with their own eyes and suddenly they are amazing.

    2. pipnina

      pipnina

      This is true, I have learned by this point that no object I look at is going to be more than a grey/green smudge/glow. But last night was dissapointing because I was used to seeing more but the weather screwed me over. It made a huge difference.

  3. pipnina

    Clear sky forecast tomorrow with very good visibility. Oooo this is exciting.

    1. orion25

      orion25

      Wonderful news! Enjoy it to the fullest!

    2. faulksy

      faulksy

      nice one, shame im on nights

    3. pipnina

      pipnina

      I will finally get to use my list of objects I compiled a month ago!

      I will definately enjoy it, esp if the updated prediction of "excellent" seeing after 8PM serves true :O Hope you get some clear skies soon, too!

  4. pipnina
    So from my setup, something like a 10/12" dob would be an improvement on setup time/portability? How heavy is your 10"? Easily liftable by 1 person? Hopefully upgrading in the new year.
  5. pipnina
    Is a 10" not easier to move around? My 5" on an EQ2 is a pain (literally, carrying the mount can dig) and is extremely heavy and from deciding to go out to looking through the EP is possibly 2/3 minutes. (i have to detach the scope from the mount, rest the scope on my bed, fold the EQ2, carry the EQ2 out front, unfold it, point it north, bring the scope out and put it on the EQ2, bring the tray with my EPs+ filter+ red torch out. I would much prefer a dob I could pick up by handles.
  6. pipnina

    So contact lenses sidn't work for me. I spent 30 minutes in spec savers trying to get them out, didn't bother with the putting back in. Glasses it is, then :/

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    2. pipnina

      pipnina

      I was surprised how easilly they return to being over your pupil when you screw up. I was also surprised as to how akward they were. About a dozen different methods of getting them out and I was terrible at all of them.

    3. pipnina

      pipnina

      They also weren't great optically, my glasses do a much better job of dealing with my astigmatism.

    4. hobsey

      hobsey

      i would love contacts but i had serious problems get them in and out, so i gave up.

  7. pipnina

    Clear skies tonight. Lunar looking inbound!

  8. pipnina

    M33 was easy... Hopefully NGC 2024 and the sculptor gal will be, too.

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    2. jetstream

      jetstream

      Congrats Pip! Just think of tank tracks, big ones, when looking for the Flame...

    3. alan potts

      alan potts

      Pip Although I have two reasonable sized scopes at 12 and 18, I have always found M33 a bit disappointing.

    4. pipnina

      pipnina

      alan, I thought it was amazing! But that could be mainly because I wasn't expecting to see it and it jumped out.

  9. pipnina

    Forecast predicted 100% clear skies and "Excellent" seeing. What actually happens? Patchy low cloud, almost complete cover of high cloud and questionable seeing... The moon is almost upon me and I've only had 1 good observing night so far... Will still keep an eye out.

  10. pipnina

    Does this site support animated GIFs as profile pics? I know I saw someone who had one but mine only worked when I uploaded it. Everywhere else it's stuck on frame 1...

    1. Ant

      Ant

      maybe something to ask in the Suggestions, Bugs, Errors and Foibles section?

    2. pipnina

      pipnina

      Perhaps.

  11. pipnina

    Do my eyes deceive me?! "Excellent" seeing predicted for tonight! Never seen that before. Time to prepare.

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    2. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      ill keep a eye on the clouds and hope. goodluck mate...

    3. pipnina

      pipnina

      So much for the clear wether. BBC kept moving the clear skies an hour forward. Now not gonna happen until 2AM

    4. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      its clear here now,thanks for the headsup...

  12. pipnina

    Clear skies forecast tomorrow :D But "Moderate" seeing >:( Sure hope that imroves... No clear skies for the whole of october so far...

    1. gooseholla

      gooseholla

      Sunday for me reads like this. fog fog fog fog fog fog mist fog fog fog fog mist, black cloud black cloud! Hmmm remix of 'badger-badger-badger, mushroom! mushroom!' coming?!

    2. pipnina

      pipnina

      "Black cloud, Black cloud, Black cloud, Black cloud, Black cloud, fog, fog, mist, fog!"

      Mine has improved, thankfully! Not quite "Verry good" but "Good" should be good enough.

  13. pipnina

    OPticians oppointment on saturday to see if I can get contacts.

  14. pipnina

    Compiling a list of objects to search for while the moon's about. I'm never gonna manage half of them XD

  15. pipnina

    Barnards' loop is a visual object!?!? I'm envyous of anyone with skies good enough for that! The images make the HH look bright in comparison!

  16. pipnina

    Moon goes away, clouds come to stay.

    1. xtreemchaos

      xtreemchaos

      and we cant go out to play, untill another day,

    2. Alien 13

      Alien 13

      I wish we could have a full Moon every night

  17. pipnina

    Forget my last status! Clear skies all night (OIII filter first light report incoming)

  18. pipnina

    OIII filter about to arrive: Clouds as far as the forecast can see! (sorry if they're affecting you, too)

  19. pipnina

    Looking like a red Andorian... Note to self: Wear sun screen next time.

  20. pipnina
    It seems kinda weird to me that LRGB is just colour pasted on top of a detailed greyscale image... But I guess that's how it is. Thanks for the info guys!
  21. pipnina
    In my mind, RGB *should* be enough. But then I don't know exactly what a luminance layer does for an image or how it / the RGB laters are used in a processed image. Hoping for someone to enlighten me ~pip
  22. pipnina
    What sort of diffraction pattern does that produce? It looks like it could be either weird or invisible.
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