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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Paul, that is a very valuable location you've got there. What sort of percentage of nights are clouded out?
My dark site has a fairly high percentage of clear nights but occassionally plagued with wind of around 20kts. That's ok for a small refractor but not anything else.
Greg.
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Rarely have wind there. Lots of nights of the year you can hear the ocean crashing into the beach and that is 6kms away. It gets that still there. Rarely is there any scintillation of the stars, sometimes near the horizon but almost never at the zenith.
Cloud cover is around 40% of nights on average. The high pressures come in and sit in the bight and can sometimes bring clouds in a constant stream, but as you can see this last year I have achieved quite a few images (nearly 12) and most of those are mega data. So there is still plenty of nights to capture data.