Not good tonight

[matt]

Have had the 9.25 outside for the last hour and a half.

Just went and had a look through the eyepiece and unless I'm mistaken the seeing tonight is positively rubbish?!

Don't think it's the scope.

New focuser seems to work nicely, though.:)

Must be these warm days causing too much atmospheric turbulence. Maybe the jetstream's not playing ball?

[danielsun]

No i dont think your mistaken Matt. I did the same and got the scope out after seeing a few stars pop out and if it was anything like here last night the seeing was not good at all!!
And i think i have been a bit spoilt from seeing excellent dark skies at Snake valley which doesnt help.

[matt]

Yeah...

and yet from looking at the JS map I would have thought I was in for something close to OK seeing?

Hmmmmmmmmm

[leon]

Hi Matt, according to the map you posted Ballarat dosn't look to good either, but i'm still going to give it a shot at 2am, we have only got a few days left before the Moon gives us heaps.

Cheers Leon

[MarkN]

I had a scope out for about an hour. No mistake, it's crap out there.

Mark.

[Omaroo]

Yup - me too. Can't see a bloody thing.

[matt]

Bad seeing or cloud, Chris?

[Omaroo]

Both Matt, and add to that - an oval down the road which has turned all its lights on 3 nights a week from now on. Time to move to Cooma - this light problem is getting silly. How much photonic energy as a race of people do we really need to expend every night?

[matt]

Hmmm. Interesting. No cloud here, but may as well be.

The seeing's that bad!

Just saw your post with the floodlit sports ground. A nightmare indeed:sadeyes:

[Ric]

Have to agree there Matt, I couldn't even split Rigel the other night while doing an alignment. It was just a fuzzy boiling blob.
I've just got in from an imaging session tonight and it was definitely a lot better.

cheers

[matt]

So it must have improved as the night wore on, eh Ric?

Coz 9pm last night (Friday) was when I was out and it was rotten

[Ric]

Hi Matt, I would say that it was a lot better after midinight, it was cooling a bit more then so that probably helped the situation. It was still warm enough to image in shorts and a tanktop.

cheers