Starstruck

Visual limit around 2.5 or 3, but deteriorating over time to the point where Polaris was not obvious visually..

I went out on Sunday morning to watch Venus rise. It was cool and not too humid, and I was mainly going out to say that I had. Once again I hadn’t set up my scope ahead of time, and getting it out quietly at 2 or 3 in the morning is just too hard [...]

I sent a cheque in to cover 20% or so of the SkyShed order, so things are starting to move there, but otherwise there wasn’t much going on in the way of Astronomy. This post is backdated, though, because I wasn’t able to post over the net – sftp failed whenever I tried to get [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve been doing much more than recovering data, but this weekend at least I had moderately clear skies, and since I had bought a release for my camera I thought I would check out how bad my skies were. I’m putting in a Sky Shed, which is a roll-off roof [...]

Not much to report this week. I spent most of the week on recovering as much of the lost content from my dead hard drive as possible. Some of the material was recovered from Google caches, some from relatives who had saved a little info from files I had sent. It appears that some of [...]