Yeah,
I put the mocker on him by saying that the last few weeks were clear - the day he comes up - bang -weather change the night before and high level cloud cover comes over.
Ahh well.
Starting to miss the DOB already
!!
Will see in a few months
Good to catch up with fellow astronomers - AstroRon came up and I noted he is about 10 mins drive from the in-laws.
Actually I was er.... emailing Lee from Andrews about the 16" DOB Steve and Ron were talking to me about - it is a truss DOB, but different from Meades in the design - it uses three poles as opposed to the cross design Meade use. Expected in Jan 07 - Feb 07.