Log, Jun 29, 2007
9 people. Well nine folks stopped by but no one managed to see anything. A patch of clear skies just above the northwestern horizon teased us all night. By 9 PM even the most optimistic of weather believers (me!?) had to admit that seeing was something less than visible. I finally gave in and started to close up. What really annoyed me is that as I drove a bit inland, the sky cleared. One by one, Venus, Saturn, many stars, then the Moon and finally Jupiter were easily seen. Still that was inland and not at FDO.A photographer from South County Living was taking pictures of our doings [non-doings!?] last night. As the dates for publication of this magazine article [and articles in the Journal and Globe] draws close I'll let you know.Sharp eyed Ernie noticed a bug in the tables I've been automatically generating. The mistake was not too noticeable for the slower moving planets, but was very noticeable for the Moon and to a lesser degree Venus. If you asked for the weekly information, you got last Friday's information rather than the upcoming Friday's information. I rounded down a number (the week of the month) that I should have rounded up. As far as I can tell, I introduced this problem earlier this year when I consolidated some "library" files which give the website a common standardized ability to do astronomy. Should any of you notice similar glitches, I very much appreciate being told. I'll try to fix them as quickly as possible. As always, I wouldn't take a manned space trip based on the info in the website.-Les Coleman
