I didn't open the observatory Monday night, 23 August 2021, due to an early commitment the next morning. Tuesday, 24 August, my POD Dome Cover arrived. I took it to the observatory in the afternoon and put it on the dome. I will post a report on the Dome Cover once I have a few opportunities to use it. Here is a "teaser" photo.

Open: Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 1807 MST Temperature: 84°F

Session: 1657 Conditions: Partly cloudy (with increasing clouds)

Upon arrival at the observatory I removed the Dome Cover (and did a video recording of that for my upcoming report).

1835 MST: dome opened.

I then relaxed on the observatory patio bench while waiting to see what the clouds were going to do. The southwestern sky had a lot of clouds and Venus was not visible due to the clouds.

1858 MST: sunset (time approximate due to the clouds).

1904 MST: the clouds had now arrived at the Zenith. There were clouds in much of the sky now and a satellite video showed that the clouds were still increasing. I decided to give up for the night.

Close: Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 1920 MST Temperature: 81°F

Session Length: 1h 13m Conditions: Mostly cloudy

---

If you upgraded to Firefox 91 on your Macintosh, you probably noticed that the Cassiopeia Observatory site looked different. Mozilla broke something in that Firefox version and it ignored background colors in my CSS code. The same problem occurred on many other sites, including commercial ones. Firefox 91.02 fixes the problem.

---

Comments are welcome using Email. Twitter users can use the button below to tweet this report to their followers. Thanks.

Tweet

---

Previous report

Cassiopeia Observatory Home Page