RE: skunked again

From: Jeffrey Crilly (jlc@No-Spam)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 09:36:09 MST

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    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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