First chance to use the Argo and things were working perfectly. Unfortunately the seeing where I am is total rubbish. So what do you do - push through or call it a night and have a good drink?
Actually the seeing is pretty good up here on the coast at the moment. There seems to be a bit of a lamina flow coming in off the ocean and settling things down. Its also pushed that thin cloud that was hanging around this afternoon off to the west. And the temperatures dropped
Nothing wrong with the seeing here of late that's for sure (Bundaberg) but its the usual thing of, it can be way worse or better 1 km up or down the road from me..It's called local seeing.
EVERYTHING running smoothly, with polar alignment to less than 30 arc-minutes out, guiding spot on, but for some obtuse reason, NONE of my GOTO targets are in the centre of the FOV! And that's with a spot on PA, which makes NIL sense.
Did test shots all night, and not a single damned galaxy showed, except at the bottom of one test. Tried realigning, but narp.
Gave up, gathered more Horsehead data, and tried Jupiter (dismal failure). Watched Prometheus on the laptop while waiting.
Stacking Horsehead now, so hopefully the night was not a complete loss.
Hi Andrew, to answer your question about what folks do when the seeing is crap, two good things to bear in mind are that dimmer objects (such as distant galaxies and nebulae) will be less effected that brighter closer objects (stars - star clusters - globulars etc), and using your lowest power EP will help to reduce the worst effects of poor seeing.
If, even with that, the seeing is still crap, alcohol is probably your only realistic alternative. A single malt whisky is particularly useful in such circumstances.
Having been to Rod's house numerous times I have seen first hand the laminar effects which come off the mountains behind his house to the West. These unfortunately typically provide Rod with very poor local seeing conditions. I can also confirm that as a result of this Rod is now an expert on galaxies and single malt scotch.
Having been to Rod's house numerous times I have seen first hand the laminar effects which come off the mountains behind his house to the West. These unfortunately typically provide Rod with very poor local seeing conditions. I can also confirm that as a result of this Rod is now an expert on galaxies and single malt scotch.
Actually Rod I am sure you can appreciate that as an industry participant for over 30 years, I have put togther a reasonable supply as a result of free supplier samplies and gifts over many years.
When you finally get down to Kiama, I have a nice bottle of 18yr old Glenlivet single malt that you may partake of a few samples. If you fancy going to a blended malt I have the 18yr old Chivas, which I am sure you will find a reasonable drop also.
Of course if you wish to upgrade to a nice cognac I have quite a supply of Hennessy and Remy XO's, I think well over 6 bottles, not counting the display boxes
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