Here in palo alto, we had relatively clear skies
around 10pm.
--- Craig Colvin <craig@No-Spam> wrote:
> I thought I was skunked but it turned into a nice
> evening.
>
> As I had stated in a previous message the sky here
> (Almaden Valley) was
> clear at 8:00 when I setup my scope but clouded over
> at 9:00. I went out to
> put away the scope around 9:30 and was surprised
> that it was clear again,
> not a cloud visible in any direction. The seeing was
> better than normal and
> the LM from my backyard was 5.8 (6 stars in Virgo
> triangle 10) which is the
> best I've ever had (it's normally 5.0).
>
> So I spent the time finishing off 11 Herchel 400
> galaxies I had left in Leo.
> Just after I found the last two glaxies my laptop
> battery died. I went in to
> get another and during the process the clouds rolled
> back in, the time was
> 1:00am.
>
> -- Craig
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam
> [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]On
> > Behalf Of Richard Crisp
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:52 AM
> > To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
> > Subject: [TAC] skunked again
> >
> >
> > Wednesday morning showed another cloudless sky at
> sunrise. Grrrr.....
> >
> > We saw a clear sky at sunset and it rapidly went
> downhill from that. But
> > sometime in the night it cleared up.
> >
> > Does anyone know when it cleared? Did anyone log
> any meaningful time last
> > night?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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