my back yard 27-9-16

[xtreemchaos]

the sky looked nice and clear lastnight, so i thought id try a bit of widefield for a change out of my obsyroom window, so 20.10 i started taking a few test shots with my 1200d and 35-135 st vintage lens.

East 20-15pm.  20sec at 800

south 20-30pm 30sec at 800

 at 20-35pm clouds came from nowhere and finnished the session, but at least i got a few test shots but no targets yet. carnt wait for some clear sky to try again. thanks for looking clrear sky .charl.

[Davey-T]

Set up last night but only clouds so you did better than me.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Dave, i could belive it, it was cristal clear then within 15 min 100% cloud, im itching to get some more shots when its darker, i only just got the lens and camera to the right setting, i had the iris in the lens at 50% because there was still light in the sky. hope you get clear skys soon.  charl.

[Macavity]

Looks rather promising (dark) Charl? Was a long, frustrating wait last night. Had essentially
given up, but left the obsy roof open with ALL SKY camera monitoring on screen indoors...
Suddenly (despite circumspection) the clouds cleared away. Wind got up quite a bit too!

Bit of a shock a couple of nights ago... LED street lighting finally arrived on road that runs
around this block. But lamps seem SHORTER than the previous Sodium Vapour ones, and  
up-lighting / scatter seems rather less? Pretty bright viewed directly though! If I ever want
to do any shadow puppetry, I only have to lower the flap at the end of the observatory. lol

Would be tough if I stood more than 2m tall too! (Fair bit less than that, fortunately)

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Chris, it gets a lot darker mate. yer we have those LED lights down our street, thay have made the sky 50% better at streetside, now if thay could turn them off at midnight it would be heaven. clear skys ,charl.