Rain!

[Uranium235]

Rain!.... and about time too! Had a couple of thunderstorms earlier on so hopefully it will have washed all the rubbish out of the air. Might actually get a good session tonight

[NGC404]

Hoping we have rain over night

Veg garden really needs a good soaking

[mylatestwhim]

We've just had a flash monsoon here, fingers crossed it clears by darkfall

[Si W]

Yep, the clouds are rolling in, great big dirty grey ones, it needs to rain to get all the c**p out of the air, it's been so muggy over this part of the country today.

[travellerinthedark]

oh we dream of rain...

[Uranium235]

Just took a look out of the back door, and the sky is definitely more blue than it has been of late. Better not get my hopes up too much though, otherwise im going to be mr grumpy again for the rest of the night...lol.

[JamesF]

It tried to rain here around lunchtime. Barely managed to get the dust wet though. It's not looking like this evening is going to be wet nor clear, unfortunately

James

[mylatestwhim]

Just had my best ever session! The sky was crystal clear here between 12pm and 3am. What a change from Wednesday!

Red letter day and a half for DSO I found 95% of targets and got some great resolution on globular clusters by playing with EPs.

I would have never believed I could get so mych in the small patch of sky from my back yard

[Uranium235]

I did quite well(ish) in the end too though there was a bit of passing cloud every now and then, the clear patches we very clear. Lets hope for more of the same tonight!

[sbooder]

Rain!..that's water right, sort of wet? I think I remember it.

[Sinbad]

Same problem...and this is supposed to be "Sunny South Africa" !#@&* I think telescopes are a worldwide cure for drought!!

[Si W]

Rains gone,Woo Hoo, the cloud is clearing from the NW of Manchester , hope i'm not jumping the gun.

Again

[Viv]

We've had nothing in Coventry !

It's not unusal - the whole country can be covered in snow or having hail / rain & it's just nothing here (escept cloud).

[Ad Astra]

Rain... in the desert, and on Easter Sunday, too. It hasn't done that in all the 25 years I've been living here that I can remember. Usually, sometime between late February and early March, we've seen the last rainfall until next November or even December. :D

This year, the "marine layer", as they call it, is not my friend. The clouds burn off by noon, we have nice sunny skies until about 6pm or so when the air starts to cool off, and then the cloud layer swoops back in from off the Pacific and socks us in for the night. We have been in this pattern since mid-December, with only one or two short (week long) breaks in the pattern. The new CGE-Pro mount is now 6-weeks old, but has less than 10 hours of observing time over just 3 nights since I've brought it home. I'm quite fond of brown and rocky hills and landscapes, actually, but this year, all the hills are sort of a leprous green and fuzzy... like a forgotten lump of cheese gone very bad.

The neighbors are all on about "It's so lovely!" or "I haven't had to run the air conditioner at all this year!". But the one that makes me want to scream Bite your tongue! - is when they say: "I wish it could stay like this all year long!"

I'm going to start handing out bus tickets to Seattle!

I want my desert back!

Dan

[Uranium235]

Thats the trouble with this time of year, if its not clear from the word go then you dont get much time actually viewing or imaging. Last night I half set up and waited til about midnight when it began to clear, by that point though I couldnt have been bothered to set up the rest as the sky quality was only about 5/10, and couldnt see much below Leo.

Come back winter! all is forgiven!

[Si W]

I've set all my kit up, just need to tweek a few things , hope i'm not tempting fate

[banner001]

it temporarily knocked out the power here in our village...big lightning flash, then BOOM! then the power went down, was back on in 10 seconds...but a big boom indeed.