Daytime planets and stars

'Just when you think you made it idiot proof, they go and invent a better idiot'

Yep - I call them carbon units - they are the most unpredictable entities and they will do exactly what you haven't accounted for. It is usually only by watching them "working" that you find out your "mistake" (not accounting for some insane method of use of the software). NEVER underestimate the unpredictability (stupidity?) of carbon units.

And you have another chance on saturday lunchtime to see Mars being occulted by the moon !

Keith..

Yesterday I set up an ETX-125 (5" - f/15) and tried to view the Moon - Mars embracement from Athens. But alas, the haze and clouds made the task impossible. The Moon was barely visible.

Unfortunately it was cloudy here also, nothing seen.

And you have another chance on saturday lunchtime to see Mars being occulted by the moon !

Keith..

Yesterday I set up an ETX-125 (5" - f/15) and tried to view the Moon - Mars embracement from Athens. But alas, the haze and clouds made the task impossible. The Moon was barely visible.

Same problem, Vaggeli, 43 km northeast of central Athens.

I cannot remember the last time we had such a long stretch of bad weather and/or conditions. We are already into May and well into 2008 and, yet, the work I have produced has been absolutely minimal. :evil:

There is no doubt in my mind that the weather is getting worse year after year. :oops:

Anthony, the weather gets on my nerves this year. That's just unacceptable! I can't remember a descent observing night, since before Christmass. The only exception was last weekend in Parnon, where we had 4 clear nights in a raw. Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday. The viewing of Omega Centauri calmed us down a lot: www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_...b8920f0a460b40e8a799
But again, I am very close to a nervous breakdown right now.
Climate changes... brrrr