Earlier
in the week, the forecast was promising severe thunderstorms on Saturday. Then, on Friday morning, the forecast changed
– the storms would be on Friday, and clear weather on Saturday! ClearDarkSky showed a fantastic
forecast. There were a lot of people out
at the observatory, and several telescopes and binoculars set up. However, the skies remained covered with high
clouds in patches, and then eventually a thick blanket of clouds toward 1
AM. So the night ended up being a
bust. I took a few images of M51, but it
quickly became covered in clouds. I was
going to camp out in my tent and image all night, but around 1:30 AM I decided
to call it and went home to sleep, since no imaging was going to be happening
at night. Since two other club members were going to camp the whole weekend, I
left my telescope up and put it in Hibernate mode and covered it with a thermal
blanket from Bob, and even left my tent up, and went home. The weather was looking hopeful for Sunday
night. I did also put the Oberwerk
binoculars I won recently at an astronomy event onto club member & friend Miqaela's tripod, which wasn’t quite beefy enough to hold
them up, but I was able to look at the moon for a bit.
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