Wet Season - Clear Skies

NT Dark Skies
surprisingly our viewing night for the close conjunction between the Comet Macholtz & the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster, was a beautifully clear night with good seeing conditions.
The previous 2 weeks had been wet & windy, and as I write this another big thunder storm rolls over Nhulunbuy.
The comet was best seen with a low power wide field view, My 10" Dobsonian gave the best view of the Ion tail of the comet.
While the little "Astroscan" rich field Scope gave the best overall view of the comet with it's Ion tail stretching to seemingly touch the "Seven Sisters"
The Comet Macholtz will be with us for another month yet, but will be growing dimmer as it plunges towards the northern horizon, through the constellation Perseus.
Saturn was, as always a crowd pleaser, with the detail visible improving as the night progressed.
The "Great Orion Nebula" was at it's most spectacular, viewed through a newly acquired 2" UA 40mm Wide Field eyepiece used in the LX90 with the 2" diagonal we now have.
Low power Wide field eyepieces give that "walking through space" feeling & a really good one like the UA 40mm, give very high contrast images (IE: Space is a velvety black & nebulas like Orion are that much brighter than normal)
Our next viewing night will be in February at a time TBA, depending on the weather.