A Day of Celebration and Parties for Solar Observers!!!

[paulastro]

Hooray, the tide had turned and the days are now getting longer   .  Those nasty dark nights will become a thing of the past and people of the light will once more be able to venture out for increasingly longer periods of sunlight in which we can re-acquaint ourselves with all that our wonderful star has to offer.  So I for one will be raising a glass of something strong to celebrate the victory of day over night - and we're going to have sunny periods tomorrow.  Yaaaay!!!

[Davey-T]

CO says it may be clear tomorrow morning to image Catalina, curiously it also says it will be raining

Dave

[paulastro]

Thanks Dave, you worried me a bit so I've just checked CO myself.  For my location it says no more than 5% total cloud cover from 8am to 1pm.  Then, 68% cloud for an hour and then pretty much clear after that until at least dusk.  Plenty of time for observing if it's true - but I have everything crossed! 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

It might be getting better, but it still only got clear today by the time the sun was too low to image. Still, I did get a brief look

[David Smith]

I'll raise a glass to that Paul

I haven't managed an image of the Sun since the 27th November

[Drop Of Sun]

Happy days! Can't wait for those Summer mornings! Hope I get to see the Orion nebula first though, a blank so far over this poor winter!