Sunday 11th of April 2010 | Ann Tekatch
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I travelled out to the alternate site tonight hoping to get a photo of Venus & Mercury. Clouds and hydro wires prevented me from getting a decent shot, but I did snap a couple of interesting photos. One of those photos is of Jim’s new laser/finder apparently burning a hole in the clouds:
![](http://www.amateurastronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/reports/laserbloga.jpg)
Using a green laser to burn holes in the clouds.
Another interesting photo I took was a 20 second exposure of a plane passing through the Hyades.
![](http://www.amateurastronomy.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/reports/PlaneHyadesBLOGb.jpg)
Plane passing in front of the Hyades star cluster.
Unfortunately, the cloud cover was too thick for just one laser to cut through (LOL) and I didn’t get as many photos as I’d hoped. There’s always next time.