Cloudy with a 100% chance of not using your telescope…
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It’s been cloudy! Completely, 100%, absolute cloud covered skies. I hear this is a common curse. Any time a backyarder like myself orders a telescope or any sort of optical equipment, the chance that it will be cloudy for the next two weeks goes up exponentially. I don’t believe in such superstitious curses, but I am starting to feel directly responsible for all the clouds and cold weather over the midwest this week.
I suppose if Deepak Chopra could cause the latest Los Angeles earthquake by meditating too hard (Really Deepak?), then all my concentrated excitement while anticipating the delivery of our new 8″ dob could cause disturbances in the weather. I mean it’s not like it’s spring, on the planet earth, in the northern hemisphere, in the midwest, where if there is one thing you can depend on, it’s the weather! [sarcasm]
Here’s hoping for crystal clear, or at least partly clear with a chance of crystal clear in the coming nights. Notice the little square chart thingy on the right? Thats my handy little astronomer’s forecast. Dark blue is good. White is bad. There is some blue on it’s way. As President Laura Roslin would say: “Oh thank the Gods!”
