Earlier tonight I walked outside and noticed that the sky was clear for the first time in yonks and the air felt quite nice. On a whim I phoned a few friends and suggested they come over for an look at the Moon and Jupiter.
So there was me an' the better half and three friends. We had a look at a feature on the moon Wally was keen to show and then I moved to Jupiter to view it before it went behind a tree. Just as just looking at it with the 10mm ortho and thinking it wasn't so great Peter arrived. I looked up to see the first of the cloud arriving. Within 15 minutes it was 90% cloud and observing ceased.
Peter mentioned that his arrival made a critical mass of astronomers, thus causing the cloud. So we came up with a new collective noun (in the spirit of Ginger Meggs) for a group of astronomers.
A condensation of astronomers. I think it works.
