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Welcome to the first real-time, online observing session for S194 students!

My name is Andy Norton, and I'll be running the session this evening ... if the weather clears that is ...

It's been raining all day here in Milton Keynes, and allthough it's stopped now, 
the cloud is  only just beginning to break up. We might get something though, 
and it will be dark here by about 9.30pm.

Joining me in the Obserservatory are OU astronomy postgraduate students
John Tanner and  Lindsey Shaw-Greening. They'll be operating the telescope
and acquiring the data this evening.

If you want to see what's going on, please point your web browser to
http://observatory.open.ac.uk and click on Webcam. The images there should 
refresh every 10 seconds .

Further messages will give details of the equipment we're using this evening 
and the various images and data as we get them. Please join in and post your
responses too!

Andy