We have been socked in with clouds and fog where I live, and there has not been much too look at in the night sky for the past few nights. The lunar eclipse was a little bit of a let down. There were just to many clouds. The moon peaked out behind its shroud of clouds for a few minutes, but then another cloud bank rolled in and I gave up. I guess I will have to wait until 2010.I was hoping to get a look at Saturn tonight, but that is now looking to be unlikely. Tonight I am spending some time studying my star chart software. I am a pretty heavy Ubuntu user, and I particularly like to use Stellarium for cloudy nights. It is a great way to learn a little bit more about the night sky above. If you operating system of choice happens to be Windows or Mac, and you would like to check out the software then you are in luck, because there are versions available for those operating systems too. Ah, the beauty of open source software!
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If clouds is all you have to worry about my friend, you got it better then me. I was stuck in an ice storm durring the eclipse.
Couldn't see a thing.
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