Encouraging forecasts for several days leading up to Friday, but after setting up the occasion, following on from a page on the BBC website encouraging visitors to go to certain observatories, including ours, the weather did the expected and turned cloudy. This was partly because of the BBC's Stargazing Live conducted over the three days before the Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So after getting other members to come with telescopes too, they were greeted by full cloud. And plenty came too, Rhys brought his sister Rhiane, and his Celestron, Max and Wendy, Mark brought his Celestron, Paul and Elaine, Sandra and Sue came too.
It did begin to clear up after 10:00pm when most had tired of it. We did see the Moon, very good too, and Jupiter and a couple of stars, Betalgeuse, Mizar. We also chased Comet C/41P but failed that too, helped by the cloud. Finally closed down about 11.
Brian