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Old 28-07-2007, 02:17 PM
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Planning for tonight

So, clear blue skies today and will be clear tonight.

Jetstream not looking favourable, but there's a High to the North West, maybe it will have some influence. Scope is already out and collimated, fan is on to help cooling.

If the conditions are good, my night will go like this:

- Jupiter: 6pm - 8pm (I can't image it once it goes overhead)
- Moon: 8pm - 10pm : Unfortunately it's almost full so there's not a lot to see but I'll get something on the limb.
- Uranus: 1am - 2am : I haven't captured Uranus with the new scope, so i'm hoping conditions are favourable for it tonight.
- Mars: 5am - 7am : With the dust storm raging on Mars i'm not entirely keen because there's so little features to see at the moment, but if conditions are good i'll give it a go.

The only spanner in the works is that I have a bad cold/flu at the moment and have felt crap all day. I don't know if my body will let me stay up tonight.

Hope conditions are good where you are, but I know the moon will ruin it for most
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