I arrived at 7:30 pm and found Gilles Grosgurin with a Meade LX200 and Peter Santangeli with his C11 already set up. The skies was covered with fast moving broken clouds, with scattered clear patches showing tantalizing views of Orion and Canis Major. It was too cloudy to get out my scope but I played with binoculars a bit, catching Messiers as the clear patches would arrive at strategic locations. Gilles, Peter, and I talked and waited for skies to improve, but conditions steadily got worse instead. By 8:30 the sky was solid cloud cover, and fog arrived in the parking about 9 pm.
Hope Friday works out better. I am going to try to make it to Henry Coe.