I feel your pain. Yesterday reminded me how the sun can make launching rockets less fun.

When I go by myself to fly rockets, I almost always do it either early in the morning or about two hours before it gets dark. Club launches are always during the middle of the day.

At the GSSS launch I attended yesterday I had fun but not nearly as much fun as when the sun isn't beating down on you. I was there for 2 1/2 hours and got sunburned as I forgot the sunblock at home. Furthurmore, tracking the rockets is 10x more difficult when that sun is right over head and it really takes the joy out of watching them go up. I lost two yesterday when the rockets crossed right in front of the sun on thier way down and never saw where they landed.