dark skies?

[hes not well again]

Currently reading a book from 1891 written by W.F Denning who claims that in Britain you would be lucky to get 100 hours of good seeing a year! In Glasgow in the last four months I've barely had as much as twenty. If you're interested in reading the book it can be downloaded free from Open Library.com

[Craig20264]

I guess Astronomy is one of the few hobbies that is so utterly reliant on clear weather. I can't think of another that can't be done in both sunshine and cloud, day or night.

[hes not well again]

Actually he had quite a lot to say about daytime observing. He claims that Venus is best observed during the day or sbout sunset. however he wrote some extremely iffy things about observing the sun, smoked glass is not safe