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Despite really strong winds, seeing today here in Nelson, NZ was sensational. The aussie bushfire smoke plume has blown away and it was very blue again. Strong southwest winds mean that most moisture is dumped on the west coast and we get super blue dry wind here, like Foehn in the alps. I expected terrible seeing but it was great (except the telescope was buffeting, although that does help a bit anyway, as the movement stimulates my eye to be able to see low contrast features. I could see both the larger and smaller spots of AR2753 in my solar dobsonian, also the granulation or supergranulation ( not sure which, I'm inexperienced in solar observing), and a couple of other lighter blotchy areas, which I should have sketched, it was so good!
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