Blowin' with the wind

The forecast this morning was for snow through the entire Sierra Nevada.  Our car has somewhat elderly "all season" tires, so we decided to skip the snowy mountain route via Reno and instead drove down the wet but not icy 99 to Bakersfield and along the 58 to Mojave.  Realized just past Bakersfield that we really should have filled up; the "empty" light had been on for about 18km when we reached Tehachapi, but we made it.  Heavy rain and fog from Tehachapi to Mojave, so we stopped there instead of continuing on to Ridgecrest or even Panamint Springs like we had planned.

The skies cleared somewhat after dinner, but the seeing was bad and there was a lot of ambient light, so I didn't drag out the scope.  cleardarksky.com is forecasting good observing conditions for Furnace Creek tomorrow night; I hope to set the scope up then under truly dark skies and see what it can do.