The curse of the astronomer is real

[AllanK]

Brought my scope on holiday thinking “it’ll be great to get away from all this light pollution and see things!”.  Meanwhile in Torridon The weather clearly has other ideas. 
 

Don’t get me wrong it’s beautiful, but a tad frustrating.

[John]

I was on holiday in darkest mid-Wales a week or so ago but having looked at the forecast, I didn't take a scope. Turned out I was right - nice sunny days but cloudy nights !

Perhaps you will get some clear patches later in the week ?

[AllanK]

11 hours ago, John said:

I was on holiday in darkest mid-Wales a week or so ago but having looked at the forecast, I didn't take a scope. Turned out I was right - nice sunny days but cloudy nights !

Perhaps you will get some clear patches later in the week ?

Fingers crossed…we’re relocating to The Mallaig area later in the week for a few days which is also a dark sky area. I’ll just suffer with the good seafood, beer and whisky until then…it’s a tough I know, but I plan on soldiering through somehow.

[dark knight]

Weather here in Motherwell has been fab, clear night sky after clear night sky,,,,,,,,,sorry joking, couldnt resist Allan

[Bruce Leeroy]

I met a fella in a car park on Monday 2:45pm  and bought some Japanese Swallow 15x80 binos (£20 bargain) literally as soon as i got out the car it started to spit rain.....drove home in biblical rain.

[AllanK]

4 hours ago, Bruce Leeroy said:

I met a fella in a car park on Monday 2:45pm  and bought some Japanese Swallow 15x80 binos (£20 bargain) literally as soon as i got out the car it started to spit rain.....drove home in biblical rain.

I misread initially and thought you had written 2:45am. I subsequently thought that either the binoculars were “hot” or “Jesus, these guys take their nighttime activities extremely seriously….how am I going to get some decent, cut price kit if the exchanges all happen in car parks around 3am?”

😂😂😂

[AllanK]

Just now, AllanK said:

I misread initially and thought you had written 2:45am. I subsequently thought that either the binoculars were “hot” or “Jesus, these guys take their nighttime activities extremely seriously….how am I going to get some decent, cut price kit if the exchanges all happen in car parks around 3am?”

😂😂😂

Is it the “Dark Sky Web”?

[Bruce Leeroy]

12 hours ago, AllanK said:

I misread initially and thought you had written 2:45am.

It's a good job I didn't finish on "Japanaese Swallow".😅