No, this is not a joke. This is not april fools day!
I setup my telescope last night, first time in 4 months, and I actually used it! I took some video data of Mars at around 12:30am-1:00am, and got up again this morning to image Saturn at 4:30am.
Wow it had been a while.. I didn't
forget anything but everything just took a little bit longer and felt a bit more clunky. The seeing wasn't horrible, which was nice for a change. But it wasn't good either.
Unfortunately fog this morning prevented any useful Saturn data - it was really dim even at 7.5fps, so I just captured 1 dim red channel and packed up. I couldn't believe how high Saturn is already! I was looking for it lower on the horizon but it turned out to be just a star
Anyway I'll process the Mars data later and see what comes of it.
Once I got into it, I was enjoying it enough - but it didn't start out that way. At the start, I had the usual thoughts... "please be cloudy", "please be horrible seeing" - anything to turn around and crawl back into bed.
But I fought through those feelings, and this morning I have that tired, gritty-eyes feeling that I remember.. LOL.