Probably because most visual observers live in that perpetually cold and cloudy hole known as Melbourne. Rob K has summed it up right. Nothing but clouds and rain for months on end. We need a desert climate, with NO bloody rain and NO bloody clouds FOREVER!!!!!
Doug you need to post your obs reports, I really used to enjoy yours back in the good old days before the
International Year of Cloudy Weather. I use a notepad aswell, also I do sketches.
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Originally Posted by Lismore Bloke
Sketching is fine if one has the skills, but it makes dark adaptation difficult and slows things down. Making notes and sketches also helps, but I think the dictaphone idea is best.
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I do sketches often and I find it helps to see *more*. I keep my red light at its lowest intensity and it's far less bothersome than the light pollution when I take my eye away from the eyepiece.
Visual observation to me is the ultimate relaxation and enjoyment, no dealing with computers, imagers, wires, cables, software etc which all can, and will stuff up at some point. Unfortunately I live in the cloudiest bloody place on Earth so this pleasure is only available once a month on average
