29 Dec
2010
29 Dec
'10
12:19 a.m.
With the year drawing to a close I pulled out my observing log and calculated how many nights were good enough weather-wise for me to take data this year. Worked out to 138. Just for the heck of it I then compared that to the number of nights I was able to take data in the past few years. 2007: 157 2008: 187 2009: 169 2010: 138 No doubt climatologists will say 3 years do not make a tend but I be lying if I said the downward trend the past three years didn't concern me. Here's hoping 2011 will be better. patrick