Another major disappointment, on a night that looked so promising. Rolled back the roof at 3am to have a good look at Jupiter (less than two weeks out from opposition) and Saturn (3 weeks to opposition). The Moon was setting at 3:30 so i was hopeful. I have had a string of nights with terrible Seeing, tonight included now.
Despite being a warm night with a slight NW breeze, and very low humidity for my location, the conditions aloft were showing spiking stars, and murky planets. Maybe that dust storm I heard about out west had thrown a bunch of stuff into the upper atmo, in any case it was not worth continuing tonight. Used the time to add a couple of calibration stars to fine tune my alignment. Closed the roof and made a cup of tea.