Thanks Dunk, Justin and Richard, I will keep trying.
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Originally Posted by blinky
Stefan, I have a very similar looking pic from Geelong at exactly the same time you were imaging. At the time i was thinking the conditions were above average for this area. I took the time to look at a star for a pickering scale comparison, and it looked somewhere around a 4-5.. It may not have been as nice as you hoped but still, you produced an image useful for science!
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Yes, the seeing was definitely better than average. The frustration is that it was nowhere near as good as the best I have, very rarely, experienced from this location, over the years.
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Originally Posted by Mickoid
Stefan, a good effort, you still managed some nice detail despite the conditions. I tried the following night and the seeing was not good either. I'm wondering if the smoke from recent controlled burn offs in the nearby hills was still lingering. This southerly blast we've just had should clean things up.
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Don't think it was the smoke. Almost always there is a disturbance layer above my location. Sometimes it is so well defined that I can focus the telescope on it. My focuser has a Vernier scale on it that allows me to calculate the distance to this layer. I've been getting altitudes between one and three kilometres for it. Not high enough to have anything to do with the jet stream. Don't know what it is, but it is very frustrating.
