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Old 06-06-2010, 05:49 PM
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Unhappy Doubter pays the ultimate price

I missed out on some observing last night because I doubted 7Timer and Shippy Skies.

It's been raining here for weeks and the general prediction is that it will continue for days. However both predictions had a short period of clear skies over the Southern Highlands last night. The cloud off the coast would be heavy all day and night but both agreed that on land it would clear just after dark but the clouds would return around midnight. So I could get my monthly fix of observing --- IF the clearing really happened and IF it happened at the right time. I was dubious. When it came time to make the decision it was raining and a friend further inland said it was 100% cloud and he had given up. So I stayed home.

You know what happened, don't you? Yep, clear by 6.30 and still clear when I went to bed at 11. So that is a for the predictions. I say I'll always be the optimist and that I'd sooner be disappointed sometimes than miss out at anytime, but this was a time I didn't take my own advice.
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Old 06-06-2010, 05:57 PM
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Thats Murphys law again David.
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Old 06-06-2010, 06:05 PM
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Exactly same thing happen to me last night. There was some cloud around just before sunset so I expected wall-to-wall cloud later on. By 11 PM I was kicking myself, as it was still clear.
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Old 06-06-2010, 06:11 PM
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Brings a song to mind "Dont you ever let a chance go by O LORD" The Newcastle song.
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Old 06-06-2010, 06:21 PM
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It was pretty much clouded over at my place yesterday afternoon but I decided to trust SkippySky, packed my son and the scopes and went to Linden Observatory. I was rewarded with a long cloudless night and my first M57 sighting of the year

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Old 06-06-2010, 06:39 PM
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Brings a song to mind "Dont you ever let a chance go by O LORD" The Newcastle song.
Quite true. However, given the subject matter of the original, I hesitate to quote it to my wife lest I be misinterpreted.

BTW we had a picnic today in the rain at a great little shelter we know but it was too foul to to much walking. Tonight it's clear again but I can't go packing up now - not with work tomorrow.
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Old 06-06-2010, 08:11 PM
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Tonight it's clear again but I can't go packing up now - not with work tomorrow.
Sleep is for the weak and the non astronomer
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Old 06-06-2010, 10:39 PM
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Always trust 7Timer - only let me down once
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Old 06-06-2010, 10:55 PM
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Ditto!!.............
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