[Chaos-l] Iffy Weather for observing...

[Klaus Hoog]

I went out to Farrington point last weekend, but nobody else showed up. Sky
was the darkest I have seen in a while- even a bit of Milky Way visible
through Cygnus.

Don't know about getting out tonight, but tomorrow is the night for Mars'
closest approach. www.space.com has an article about a dust storm visible
through small telescopes.

Klaus


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart-Taylor, Jon" <jstewart at misg.com>
To: "Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:54 PM
Subject: [Chaos-l] Iffy Weather for observing...


> Hi all.  The Jordan Lake skyClock still predicts good observing for
> tonight:
>
> http://cleardarksky.com/c/JordLkNCkey.html?1
>
> But the Wunderground forecast isn't nearly as encouraging:
>
> http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=27623&
> hourly=1&yday=300&weekday=Friday
>
> And the local Satellite picture is positively bad:
>
> http://www.wunderground.com/satellite/vis/1k/US/NC/Raleigh-Durham_Intern
> ational.html
>
> Looking at the whole US satellite, there is a wide band of clear sky
> lurking to the west, but i'm not sure it'll get here in time.
>
> Assuming it does clear to the west, anyone interested?
>
> J.
> -- 
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