So how was last Monday's observing?

[Rick]

Go on... Tell us what it was like...

[Sue]

We had great fun negotiating the paddlocked gate and picking our way through the post boot sale rubbish cascading fron the bins!!!Were you forewarned?

We had a good look round the sky (lots of reasonable clear patches) with binos and Jeff's scope, no satallites or planets seen  

[Mike]

That's twice now, I think we definately need to procure a copy of the gate padlock key if possible !!

[Rick]

When I was observing officer I used to send Richard George (who owns the field) a list of the dates, with my phone number on the bottom, and he'd contact me if there was a problem.

Richard would warn me about boot sale conflicts, but, so long as I didn't choose weekends it wasn't usually a problem. I guess I also used to avoid Fridays and Mondays simply because they were bad nights for getting out, so maybe I just avoided boot-sale fall-out by accident...

Recently I've been sending him a printout of the website observing evening page from time to time, but the last copy I sent might not have had all the recent dates on it, or the dates might have been changed at fairly short notice.

[Rick]

That's twice now, I think we definately need to procure a copy of the gate padlock key if possible !!

Or something...

Jeff, it might be an idea to talk to Richard George sometime...