VROD update

[helicon]

Just a quick update. Haven't really seen any VROD worthy reports recently and that is the reason for the hiatus. I have checked back to early December 2022 and 2021 to see if other reports would be worth highlighting, but most of those were already featured, e.g. the VROD has been running for a couple of years now. My own observing has mostly been shut down due to weather but I did get in a naked eye session viewing Gemini, which is visible in the SE early in the morning. With some dark adaptation I was able to make out most of the stars in the constellation besides Castor and Pollux. I tried to look for M35 near the feet but couldn't quite make it out. Anyway, that's been it for the last few weeks. M35 was "discovered" by Phillip Loys de Cheseaux in 1745.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_35

[Bigzmey]

I can only report a few Moon sittings between the clouds. Been waiting for a clear night for the last three weeks.

[messier 111]

here there are just dandruff from the clouds ...

[kt4hx]

I've not had any observing since that little session with the grandson last month. Weather at the dark site has not been too cooperative when the moon was absent, plus I have also been involved with putting up Christmas decorations. I hope to be able to get back over there sometime this month before Christmas. Worst case, perhaps I can wheel the 12 inch out here at home and see what I can find.

[jrkirkham]

I make visual reports sometimes, but I was visiting one kid in Michigan for Thanksgiving and I plan to visit my other two kids in Arizona for Christmas. The days in between have not been good for observing. I am still hopeful though. I haven't closed the observatory down for winter yet.

[helicon]

Speaking of trees, I have to haul a nice noble fir up the stairs and into the living room from outside the front door this afternoon. Then the lights and ornaments go on. There is some partly cloudy weather coming up over the weekend so hopefully I can get a session in, even if it's just some suckerholes in the clouds. Very damp and cloudy last night so watched the first half of Oppenheimer, which I had not yet seen. It's great to see so many eminent physicist characters portrayed.

[Unitron48]

Weather has been questionable as of late. But, we do have an early observing session for newbies planned for this Monday, 11 Dec...and a Geminids observing session planned for 13/14 Dec. More to come.

Dave