[Chaos-l] Observing at ECRA last night (2/4)

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi al.  There was an observing session last night despite the earlier 
heavy rains.  Both the sky clock and the wunderground predicted 
clearing during the session (see the observing conditions page), so i 
thought i'd go.  The sky clock was again amazingly accurate, correctly 
predicting clearing, followed by a band of clouds lasting about an 
hour, and then clearing again.  Unfortunately, the band of clouds 
occupied about an hour in the middle of the 6:30 to 8:30 session, so we 
did a lot of sucker-hole hunting: waiting for a sucker hole, pouncing 
on an object, and showing 2-3 people before the clouds covered it.

Highlights were the moon, Saturn, the Orion nebula, and the winter star 
clusters.

Overall,  not a bad session.

J.