Re: (SNES) Mars

["Les Coleman" <les11@cox.net>]

> Wow!  You get TWO hours of clear skies in summer?!
> Yer living the Life of Riley, Ernie. :-)  Our Gulf mud
> skies have moved in a month earlier than usual,
> although I did see the moon through a 15 minute break
> in the uniform cloud cover last night.  I anticipate
> more dust storms on Mars for this opposition, autumn
> just began for the norther hemisphere so the CO2 will
> soon start subliming in the south, although I expect
> it should hold out through at least the end of June,
> maybe mid-July.  We get 10 degrees more altitude than
> FDO, but your skies are much clearer.

Ed,

We'll hope we get clear skies with Mars doing its enlargement thingy, but this has been a
hidious, perfidious, and totally ludicrous year to try to be an amateur astronomer in New
England. Take a look at
www.frostydrew.org\observatory\images\weatherhistory.gif  and you may not be so anxious to
trade skies.  With 60% total  weather closures, 5 closures after less than 3 hours and only
3 openings I was able to stay open more than 3 hours you can see that astronomy is a very
poor risk activity.

Les
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