Arrrggghhhhh

Ok, when the weather finally clears enough for you to actually see the planet that everyone has been trying to see, and you bring a camera and you grab the extra set of batteries, it is a good idea to a) not lend out one half of the spare set of fully charged batteries, b) charge the original set up beforehand, and c) don't forget the tripod at home. All three of these things, as you can tell, I did not do. I lent out two of the four spare batteries I had, when my camera needs all 4, and the ones int he camera got as far as the splash screen before dying. I also forgot my tripod, so any pictures I did get of the planet likely would have been blurry. There were 400 or so people lined up for 10 or 12 telescopes when I arrived, and more had been through those lines before. I think RASC did good.