The impact of weather on astronomy!

For the past few days it has been raining constantly in Australia and this has denied us access to the telescope. We are using optical telescopes rather than radio or space telescopes. Radio telecopes (which don't rely on visual light) are barely affected by weather and space telescopes aren't affected at all (obviously!). So, we are doing a juggling act with the weather, the visibility of the target and the proper functioning of the telescope. But we have high hopes for today as there is very good weather and as far as we can tell the telescope is working fine.