¶ - It looks like my weather station is recording well, as I see I am getting a Quality Control "rating" from my station's CWOP Information page:
                                       

  
                                            

                                             

¶ - I've been trying for quite some time to catch the mysterious and elusive "North Korean satellite," or "Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2." I had a good ambush point for it at Arcturus and I believe I glimpsed it, but as I cannot be 100% certain I won't enter it in my observation lists. In the decoded TLE's I can access it never shows a list of magnitudes; those magnitudes are always listed as "?". From what I've read, it is suspected that it is tumbling and out of control. I was hoping that if this was indeed the case I would see it display an irregular set of flashes. I'll keep trying for this one . . .

¶ - I've been thinking about the appearance of this page, the template or scheme, if you will. To wit, if it was some kind of commercial endeavour it just wouldn't cut-it, at least as how I see it. The black background, too many colors, it may be said it looks like the work of an amateur . . .

. . . I'm reminded of an all-too-familiar-to-me, to-remain-unnamed corporate Intranet website that the company "wanted to make better" but succeeded in merely flushing an already perfectly navigable website down the toilet, with much gaudy and unworkable cheesiness being part of the result. Check out this from The Oatmeal to see what happens oft-times when an outfit tries to "improve" its "web presence." Hilarious and so apropos . . .