In the end, I don't need fancy software to convince me of the quality of the seeing, 100's of nights, watching sub frames come down from the same scope, with same camera and same filters, tends to give you a pretty good understanding of what good seeing looks like
....Over the seven years of collecting data from Wallaroo, sitting with my scope
, I got to know the seeing out at Wallaroo pretty intimately and I have to say it was very rarely truly mushy and usually good enough to extract some nice detail from small targets and more than occasionally I enjoyed some nice steady nights, where stars in sub frames were nice and tiny
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It is abundantly clear, that the sub frames I have been seeing coming down each night up here at Eagleview, on my lap top, have put a smile on my face, they are clearly as good as or better, than the handful of the very best nights I experienced over that seven years at Wallaroo and regardless of what MaximDL tells me, I am pretty bloody excited...and now wanting to re-image quite a few objects!
Now that I have it however, yes, I will probably use MacimDL to assess the state of the seeing and will be able to quantify when it is really good and when it is not...then, the detail revealed in the finished image, will ultimately tell the story
Looking good outside up here right now actually
....bloody Full Moon
Mike