Seeing condition Question..

[johnnyt123]

Hi everyone.
I have a simple question to ask..

How do you know what the seeing conditions are and whether they are good enough for imaging?

Is there a way to forecast seeing conditions to know whether to spend the next 2 hours setting up your equipment??

do seeing conditions differ for planetary Vs deep space imaging?

Is planetary imaging or deep space imaging more sensitive to the quality of seeing conditions?

Sorry that was more than 1 question...

Thanks for your help

John

[Somnium]

you can go onto skippysky.com.au and that will show you forecasts for seeing and different types of cloud conditions. planetary imaging is impossible in bad seeing, wide field imaging is fine and relatively short FL imaging is okay too. when you start to get over the 1000mm FL mark then Deep sky imaging becomes very sensitive to seeing (from my experience)

[cfn]

Cloud free night (http://www.cloudfreenight.com/map.view&map_type=wind300) will give you regional ACCESS model data for the jetstream and wind maps, far more accurate than the GFS model used on SkippySky. In addition you can also use our dark sky product which will give you an indication of the seeing conditions, with its wind and cloud coverage forecasts, and moon illumination for your selected location.