Commiserations.
I spent about two hours doing scut-work last night. When I came out - the sky was absolutely black and every object visible in the southern hemisphere was shining bright-as. In fact I don't think I've seen a better sky.
By the time I'd dragged the scope out - cloud!
I try to console myself by thinking it was only that way for the ten minutes I looked........but I know!
"Astronomy before accounting" is my latest motto.
Looks like cloud again tonight and tomorrow night. I really need to set my system up and learn how to use it. The G11 is making a great door stop at the moment.
In the past four months there's only been one night with half decent transparency...it was full moon and I was sick as a dog.
Only consolation is that the monsoon will soon be over and months of lovely clear skies await.
Do you think the Chilean government would mind if we mass-migrated up one of thier mountains?
Yep - it pays to have patience - mine ran out just before xmas. If its not the weather, its other commitments, equipment troubles, wrong time of the month (lunar, that is)......seems like there are too many things that need to come together all at once
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. Astronomy can be a cruel hobby at times...
