Ian pinged me. Telescope parked. A successful night. Imaged "from post to post." All right.
I was asleep when the message came in.
Saturday, September 03, 2016
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- shared some pix
- SkyNews out
- tried to sort PPM 89370
- tried to sort STT 549
- attended meeting
- obtained t-adapter
- linked to life lists again
- during the short walk (Blue Mountains)
- a couple of galaxies (Blue Mountains)
- tested in the field (Blue Mountains)
- imaged a portion of NGC 7000 (Halifax)
- new date set
- explained date entry
- cloudy, cold, windy (Blue Mountains)
- helped a bit
- processed NGC 147
- tested focuser control in BYE
- it can be repaired
- happy observing night (Blue Mountains)
- viewed Mercury in the blue (Blue Mountains)
- tried a different hand controller
- swapped marine batteries
- imaged NGC 1907 (Halifax)
- a couple of multiples (Blue Mountains)
- checked alignment (Blue Mountains)
- tried to wait-out the clouds (Blue Mountains)
- checked the mirror lock bolt depth
- helped at Probus event
- worked Miram in colour
- updated the map
- examined NGC 6882 (Halifax)
- put together NGC 1491
- drafted Journal piece
- what goes 'round
- three now
- yellow LED!
- puzzled together NGC 772
- assembled NGC 1501 in colour
- processed NGC 7510
- drew bracket version 1.0
- built an Aladin Lite query tool
- loaded Stellarium 15
- Orion high (Bradford)
- a new version to try
- light bulb
- the countdown has started
- silly Moon
- ordered box 2
- could not find the notice
- Binary Universe: AstroPlanner
- meeting next week (postponed)
- updated the weather page
- no luck with Force mode
- who goes there?
- corrected the weather app
- an interesting evening (Don Mills)
- asked to help again
- millions and millions
- captured curious NGC 7510 (Halifax)
- tried for Palomar 10 (Halifax)
- split POU 3855 (Halifax)
- progression
- imaged Miram (Halifax)
- suggested an option
- sent in test results
- still not connected
- imaged HR 8025 (Halifax)
- it accepted theta Cyg! (Halifax)
- imaged HD 350461 (Halifax)
- imaged SAO 87428 (Halifax)
- it all worked out
- gaze in the Crystal Ball (Halifax)
- nailed 1501 (Halifax)
- received more 936 data (Halifax)
- received all 772 data (Halifax)
- received good 891 data (Halifax)
- redirected
- another great feature
- grabbed a battery
- interconnected 4 and 6
- 344 days
- in a little white box
- bad setting?
- made some actions
- checked the colours of 42
- looked up a number
- NGC 1491 after the party (Halifax)
- switched to stranded
- here they come
- cleaned up camera-lens profiles
- portable power on sale
- inspired by sci-fi
- watched launch
- OSIRIS-REx to launch today
- tight at last
- still stiff
- viewed Randy's gallery
- had not read the October Journal
- chilled
- a few chores
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Pluto
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