President’s Message Get ready for winter! Ed Karch

Here it is: three Code Red days in a row. Seeing steady as a rock, transparency like trying to see through a rock, air you can wear but don’t try breathing it. Now is the time to start getting your winter observing wardrobe together. The stores are shifting to fleece and down. Autumn is but a month or two away when we start getting our best viewing of the year. Spring is often wet but autumn is usually the best it gets here.

I got a catalogue today with boots rated down to -40 degrees. I for one am planning on making observing a year around hobby. In the words of Iron Man Dietz: "Observing ain’t nice till you are covered in ice".