SkippySky forecast

JD2439975 (Justin) · #1 17-06-2009, 04:33 PM

Being a relative noob my judgement on transperancy and seeing conditions is a bit dodgy to say the least.

Have any with a more experienced eye judged the accuracy of SkippySky forecasting?

http://www.skippysky.com.au/Australia/

Transperancy wise it seems to be pretty good, just interested to know what others think.

JD

Jen · #2 17-06-2009, 05:15 PM

Woah thats a colorful site i wouldnt know where to start on that one

Paul Haese · #3 17-06-2009, 08:24 PM

Being an SA guys and knowing Andrew Cool through the association, I have used this site a lot.

Transparency and cloud cover are often pretty good, although with the odd problem.

The seeing on the other hand is not yet perfected but can 50% of the time be pretty correct. Andrew and I have had a lot of discussion on this system and how it works. He is working his way through it with another chap who is a meteorologist. I think in time the seeing section will be accurate.

I at present see it as being yet another tool in assessing weather conditions. Lot of different tools make for a better informed decision.

JD2439975 (Justin) · #4 18-06-2009, 01:47 AM

Excellent! just what I wanted to hear, thank you Paul.

I like this site, it's shortcut is forming a well worn track on my desktop.
Plenty of data to look at and the AviStack freeware he links to is also an interesting little program for moon and planet stacking.

JD

ian (Ian) · #5 18-06-2009, 04:34 AM

wow, this is just great and just what i've been looking for because we hope to return to Australia permanently in a month or two and i've become spoilt using a very precise service available for North America.

dont know how well known this is in OZ - so forgive me if i state the obvious - being over here in the USA i have been using a great website 'www.ClearDarkSky.com' for astronomical forecasts. the raw data comes from the Canadian Meteorological Centre using models specifically for such forecasts, and a clever developer, Attilo Danko, created a very legible colour-coding to produce a nice graphical representation of the raw data. enter your latitude and longitude and you can see your local conditions by the hour.

i wonder if the same can be done using the raw data skippysky are using to create those maps? hhhmm ... food for thought.

below is the link to my local 'clear sky clock', scroll down the page for explanations.

http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/EglObWIkey.html?1