Bust..

Date: 17th March 2009, Saturday
Observation Time: 7:30pm to 8pm (30 mins)
Location: TDS, CA
Weather: Worst weather ever..
Instruments: Orion 10 XTi
Buddies: Ashwin, Alankar and Renga

Venus: The crescent venus shape was marvelous. it was like first phase from the new moon. Because of atmospheric movements, the bright part of Venus was glittering. We watched it from club's 22" scope and then thru my 10" scope. The view from my scope was comparable to club's scope.

Venus was the highlight and only object of the night. Fog rolled over and killed whole night.. it was complete waste driving to TDS. Bad night. !! Accuweather showed that sky is clear, no clouds from 7pm to 11pm, but mentioned abt high humidity. Clear sky clock showed cloud cover, transparency to be excellent, but seeing to be bad... Being deprived of astronomy sessions for more than 2 months, I took a risk of driving to TDS, but complete failure.

Discussion abt "Qualia" with Renga was interesting though.