2022-04-26, 04:39 PM
Hi Dennis,
Sorry to hear about your crap weather. In my experience the probability of cloudy skies is inversely proportional to the rarity of the celestial event you want to observe
. Still have to provide a heads up incase you catch a break. Also there's more to the southern hemisphere than you soggy guys in southeast(?) Australia. I've heard that there are even some desert regions somewhere on the continent.
I'd love to be able to get my telescope down under some time, but I'd probably be unable to find anything 'cause it's all upside-down down there
.
The weather around Columbus is so bad that the 69" telescope was moved from Perkins Observatory in Delaware, OH to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. That doesn't happen too often.
Bad weather helped make me the Posting Freak that I used to be.
Phil S.
Sorry to hear about your crap weather. In my experience the probability of cloudy skies is inversely proportional to the rarity of the celestial event you want to observe
. Still have to provide a heads up incase you catch a break. Also there's more to the southern hemisphere than you soggy guys in southeast(?) Australia. I've heard that there are even some desert regions somewhere on the continent.I'd love to be able to get my telescope down under some time, but I'd probably be unable to find anything 'cause it's all upside-down down there
.The weather around Columbus is so bad that the 69" telescope was moved from Perkins Observatory in Delaware, OH to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. That doesn't happen too often.
Bad weather helped make me the Posting Freak that I used to be.
Phil S.