Spoke with my woodworking friend over the weekend and he has this coming week off so expects to bring over the couple of bits he promised me so it will soon be time to get back in the saddle, not that the weather has been very encouraging in recent times.

Since I wiped the HDD in the desktop and the laptop also went back for a new HDD not so long ago, I don't have any planetarium software on either machine. I should be able to resurrect my copy of Starry Night but need to decide which machine to put it on as I think the licence is just for the one machine. I also need to create another observing log and I think that in the future I will email it to myself from time to time so that a copy of some sort is kept on the IMAP server. I see Mars(?) looks to be somewhere near the moon at present and if they are getting closer might make a good target for my first photography project if the daytime weather doesn't give me a look at the sun.