I managed a half marathon tonight!
The clouds finally cleared and I tested the script as far as I could.
In two and a half hours I viewed 54 of the first 66 objects - those that I couldn't see were obscured by various imovable obstacles in my back yard, or hadn't risen yet. I gave up when the remainder were still below the horizon.
One things for sure, I need to sort out the order of a few of the objects - a bit too much zig-zag slewing really
Still, it was rather good fun on an ordinary sort of night, and even though I didn't spend long on each object, I saw a few for the first time, and have a list of some really nice objects to revisit on a better night (NGC2362 for one).
For those on their way to IISAC tomorrow, Have a great one!