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Originally Posted by Robert9
Got dark by about 9pm. At 9:15 the first clouds began to appear. By 9:30pm I was playing dodgems. All over by 10:30pm - 10/10 cloud cover.
Wah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did manage a few videos of Jupiter but have yet to look at these. Knowing my luck, they're probably either too dark, too bright or out of focus! Do I sound depressed?
When I first decided to get a scope, I bought my wife a new sewing machine so she could take up quilting. I know who got the better deal. While my wife sits happily sewing, I'm staring out the window at the custard skies or trying to read pretty picture-books about the things I should be seeing through my scope.
I'm a bit too old to start a new life in the country Kev, but gee, it would be nice.
Robert (off to bed in a state of frustration!)
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Sorry to hear that Robert. I noticed it getting cloudier and cloudier and I swear I heard rain drops on my pergola roof earlier in the evening. How was the seeing?
Sounds like your wife has the right idea. On a related note, I guess if someone was interested in studying raindrops, the effects of 18C days in the middle of January and the many varieties of slate-grey layer cloud year round, including fog, stratus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, drizzle, even more drizzle; they would explode from over stimulation in this town.
I certainly would flower off north of the great dividing range if given half a chance, but that wont happen anytime soon. So I'm stuck here in Australia's basement for the near future. The BOM claims over 180 cloudy days and a measly 50 clear days for Melbourne annually. There's food for thought (and a death knell for blood pressure).
Rare Event
