A Condensation

[AstralTraveller (David)]

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.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Or, better yet...a constellation of astronomers

[AstralTraveller (David)]

'Constellation' was considered and rejected. We could see condensation - not constellations.

[Ric]

Makes sense to me David.

But

The only flaw in this hypothesis would be a Star Party, technically there would be wall to wall cloud across the hosting state.

Cheers

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Ric

The only flaw in this hypothesis would be a Star Party, technically there would be wall to wall cloud across the hosting state.

Isn't that what happens??

[Ric]

I'll have to go to one and find out

Cheers

[wanglese]

Actually, Peter's wife came up with a great colective term:

"A precipitation of astronomers"

Even though there was no rain that night, it's well known that Astronomers have broken droughts merely by their gatherings.

[Enchilada]

Originally Posted by wanglese

Actually, Peter's wife came up with a great colective term:

"A precipitation of astronomers"

Even though there was no rain that night, it's well known that Astronomers have broken droughts merely by their gatherings.

If a Mr. Herald ("The Man from Cloudy Canberra"), it would be a "Deluge of astronomers"

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Ric

Makes sense to me David.

But

The only flaw in this hypothesis would be a Star Party, technically there would be wall to wall cloud across the hosting state.

Cheers

By having a Star Party, the collective density and localisation of astromoners plays havoc with the pervailing weather patterns, thereby counteracting the "condensation of astronomers" phenomenon and just bringing back normal random acts of weather.

There is no "current" proof that Star Parties are the cause of climate change!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by tlgerdes

There is no "current" proof that Star Parties are the cause of climate change!

Try plotting the annual number of star party attendees against global average temperatures.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Enchilada

If a Mr. Herald ("The Man from Cloudy Canberra"), it would be a "Deluge of astronomers"

Now, now. I've been to some of his events where it didn't rain. Plenty of cloud but no rain.