No I bloody didn't.And I got the big telescope out ( big job ) and acclimatised the lenses. This was after the newspersons told me that the best place in the whole of Britain to see it would be Cheshire which is my back yard. Come 2:30 am this morning and it is overcast and turning foggy. I was fuming.
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i was dying to see itcrashed on the couch at 1.30-ish, didn't wake up till 6. :(
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Thu 21 Feb 2008, 12:16,
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I briefly saw somepartial coverage around 2:35 but nothing worth setting up the scope, camera and computer for so I just had another beer and sulked off to bed.
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Was that a photo of you and your setup I saw posted last night?Tough break, mate. It was quite a sight, I have to admit. And I was fortunate in that my hotel window faced east so I could see it without freezing my arse off.
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Thu 21 Feb 2008, 12:17,
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That photo was not minebut an identical Meade 7" AP refractor.
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