An update, and a return to rainy weather
We’re past the equinox, so the days are now longer than the nights. Daylight saving just kicked in, so all our clocks jumped forwards an hour. (Don’t get me started on the stupidity that is daylight saving. Remember - they implemented it so that workers in the armaments factories during World War I would have more daylight to work by.)
I’ve been waiting on better weather for about a month now, since my trip to the Dark Sky Site in August. The September new-moon weekend was washed out, and the weather has been generally poor.
Until the end of last week. Yay! We had several clear nights in a row, so I had the telescope out and imaging two galaxies that are relatively close to earth. The final images are over in the ‘Astro’ section.
We’re supposedly heading into (yet) another La Nina weather event - the third in three years. Which means that good astro weather will be in short supply for at least another year. Damn.