Post script 03 April 2014:

The irony of being prevented from imaging Mars by a Saharan red dust storm over Lowestoft has not escaped me!

I have a dream. We Astronomers, beginners to professionals, live in a city (naturally on the equator) that has nearly perfect weather.

Oh, it rains sometimes during the full moon nights but is clear and clean otherwise. Naturally, nearly everybody sleeps during the day so fatigue doesn't get in the way of our obsession. (No, I have not forgot about our beloved solar viewers)

On those nights of full moon, we "Go Normal" and take our friends, wives, husbands or whatever, to restaurants and movies and other unnatural places.

I have a dream.