Seeing conditions in Melbourne last night

[04Stefan07]

Managed to get some time outside last night imaging the planets and Moon.

I was having a real hard time with Mars and Saturn. Focus was ok but there was so much missing detail on both planets.

I am assuming that the Moon was flushing a lot of the detail and colour out but maybe atmospheric conditions were crap as well?

Anyone in Melbourne imaging last night and can share their experience?

[Atmos]

I was shooting with a 135mm lens and had FWHM of 1.5 pixels ;)
At my image scale even the worst of seeing conditions are still quite favourable :lol:

[iborg]

Hi Stefan

I was trying as well last night, same issue as you had.

Philip

[Nikolas]

Lots of disturbance in the air due to the cold front that was coming through in the early morning.

[The_bluester]

We were out having a first light of the scope I got my yung bloke for his bristhday (8" motorised dob) and while it needs properly collimating I thought the conditions were pretty unexceptional.

Still, he was rapt as now he has his own to use. I just need to build a good, big and stable dob trolley to be able to get it in and out without having to remove the OTA.

[cfn]

Conditions last night in Melbourne.
06UTC (https://www.cloudfreenight.com/files/06UTC.pdf) and 12UTC (https://www.cloudfreenight.com/files/12UTC.pdf)

[bojan]

I was eyeballing and filming Moon, Saturn and Mars last night, there was nothing to be seen, Moon was boiling...
Today I will try to extract some details from movies, but I'm not holding my breath.