Hi Alexander



 RM> Kinda breezy here right now. Luvly rain, though.



 AS> Send some rain. 18mm in 60 days, with the temperature mainly in the

 AS> thirties, leaves plants and humans rather parched.



That's wetter than most of our springs. Wimpy southerner 



 AS> How is the scope?



Sulking. The first wet season in six years has produced so much

cloud that I haven't had a serious peek since early December. I

dragged it out the other night because it was clear, but the first

quarter moon washed out everything. Th hi power eyepiece had fogged

up somehow, so Mars was unexciting. Centaurus A was nearly

invisible, so I contented myself with a glob or two and that lovely

deep red carbon star near Beta Crux. About half an hour, tops.



 AS> Did you see the nice pictures of the dirty

 AS> snowball on SBS.?



No, but the magazines are full of them. I find comet photos

interesting, but they do nothing for my sense of wonder. A comet

has to be *seen*...



Cheers



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