Give me rain

[MartinB]

5 nights now of setting up only to have the clouds roll in. Clear all day here. Had to visit friends. Set up 10.00 and ditto. I don't mind thick clouds and rain, you know where you stand then. Its the hope that kills, tantalising clear spells, good seeing and objects starting to appear on the laptop only to be suddenly greyed out the second you're ready to roll.

Give me strength

Got some flats anyway :?

You can talk about the green rolling hills of Albion but sometimes this place really sucks.

[GazOC]

Same here Martin, it was clear all day in work, i'm off tomorrow and the clouds arrived at 21:30 ....and its blowing a gale up here as well.

[OXO]

Awful here too i was on the train earlier this eveing it took over 2 hrs due to power lines falling onto the tracks.

[GordonCopestake]

Same here, sunny and clear all day, cloudy at night. pain in the preverbial

[daz]

Ditto.

I tell you, Naz has the right idea!!!

[MartinB]

Ditto.

I tell you, Naz has the right idea!!!

For anyone else a similar idea here's a link to work out where to emigrate to

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~jander/clouds/globalclouds.html

[Kenny_10_Bellys]

Well, we got it cloudy at first and then it cleared up! At baout 10.30 last night I looked out and the sky was completely clear, so I loaded up the car and headed to the highest nearby hill and began setting up my gear. Then the wind picked up.

By the time I had everything set up it was gusting something chronic and even at the lowest magnifications everything was shaking. I was tying for M31, the Plieades and Uranus, but the wind shot my imaging attempts down every time. At about mdnight I noticed a tiny cloud had formed near Cassiopea, and within about 5 minutes it covered most of the sky! Whilst I found the speed of the cloud formation amazing, it also put the kybosh on my night and I gave up and left. Frankly I wish it hadn't taunted me so, and had just remained cloudy.

Maybe tonight.....

[GordonCopestake]

North east Oz looks a good bet

[mark RD]

Its raining here martin, your welcome to pay me a visit

RD

[MartinB]

Raining here now so I won't be taking my gear out and bringing it all back in again. Feeling like the grand old duke of york lately

[CELESCOPE]

well it remained clear here for yet another night , so what did i do , to tired after the previous nights , so stayed in and spent all evening processing that last image i done heheeh

[robindurant]

I bought a new Scope in April and all I can say is that if it was my only hobby I would take up another to go with it. However I do know now that there is a God because every time I try to look through his window he draws the curtains !!

Robin