Not good tonight

matt · #1 24-11-2006, 08:58 PM

Have had the 9.25 outside for the last hour and a half.

Just went and had a look through the eyepiece and unless I'm mistaken the seeing tonight is positively rubbish?!

Don't think it's the scope.

New focuser seems to work nicely, though.

Must be these warm days causing too much atmospheric turbulence. Maybe the jetstream's not playing ball?

danielsun · #2 24-11-2006, 09:15 PM

No i dont think your mistaken Matt. I did the same and got the scope out after seeing a few stars pop out and if it was anything like here last night the seeing was not good at all!!
And i think i have been a bit spoilt from seeing excellent dark skies at Snake valley which doesnt help.

matt · #3 24-11-2006, 09:31 PM

Yeah...

and yet from looking at the JS map I would have thought I was in for something close to OK seeing?

Hmmmmmmmmm

leon · #4 24-11-2006, 09:45 PM

Hi Matt, according to the map you posted Ballarat dosn't look to good either, but i'm still going to give it a shot at 2am, we have only got a few days left before the Moon gives us heaps.

Cheers Leon

MarkN · #5 24-11-2006, 10:10 PM

I had a scope out for about an hour. No mistake, it's crap out there.

Mark.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #6 24-11-2006, 10:11 PM

Yup - me too. Can't see a bloody thing.

matt · #7 24-11-2006, 10:13 PM

Bad seeing or cloud, Chris?

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #8 24-11-2006, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by matt

Bad seeing or cloud, Chris?

Both Matt, and add to that - an oval down the road which has turned all its lights on 3 nights a week from now on. Time to move to Cooma - this light problem is getting silly. How much photonic energy as a race of people do we really need to expend every night?

matt · #9 24-11-2006, 10:27 PM

Hmmm. Interesting. No cloud here, but may as well be.

The seeing's that bad!

Just saw your post with the floodlit sports ground. A nightmare indeed

Ric · #10 25-11-2006, 03:45 AM

Have to agree there Matt, I couldn't even split Rigel the other night while doing an alignment. It was just a fuzzy boiling blob.
I've just got in from an imaging session tonight and it was definitely a lot better.

cheers

matt · #11 25-11-2006, 10:03 AM

So it must have improved as the night wore on, eh Ric?

Coz 9pm last night (Friday) was when I was out and it was rotten

Ric · #12 25-11-2006, 10:16 AM

Hi Matt, I would say that it was a lot better after midinight, it was cooling a bit more then so that probably helped the situation. It was still warm enough to image in shorts and a tanktop.

cheers