The weather was iffy at best, but the satellite imagery showed a chance of clear skies, so we rolled the dice. Once on site, the skies were clear to the southeast and the motion of the clouds overhead was tending northwest, so Tom started setting up solar equipment to view the Sun before it got dark. That’s as far as the star gaze got. Clouds moved in with few gaps visible and then the gaps stopped showing up as well.
Thankfully, Tom Haugh was the only member who fell for the clear sky ruse. Several other members called in for local sky reports and were told to not bother coming out. Even so, we had about a dozen people stop by wondering what was going on or some just rolled the dice on their own. Once it started getting dark without any chance of viewing anything other than the bottom of clouds and with the park closing, Tom packed up and slunk back home.