South African Astronomical Observatory- Sutherland. An early morning wintry scene with the turret of the 74-inch telescope vbisible through mist after a snow fall. Despite being " sunny South Africa ", snow can occur at Sutherland several times a year and it is not only confined to the winter months. One thing about a snow fall is that it always seems to clear that night and then its very cold and some astronomers really feel the cold in their unheated domes where the temperature can drop to as low as -10 deg C or less. Scanned from a color photograph taken by Robin Catchpole using a black/white scanner and artificially colored by GR.