Can good seeing be predicted?

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

What is it with city-slickers and floodlights. Are they scared the killer kangaroos are going to get them???? Geez!

no ken, its the drop bears!

I can generally forcast how the night going to be looking at the sky during the day... but not reliably....

[fringe_dweller]

Originally Posted by rumples riot

My experience is this. Nights of great seeing typically precede a cold front moving in from the West. The warm air rises up over the top of the cold front. Seeing is especially good when the night is still and a little humid during late summer. All my best imaging efforts this year have been late summer on still humid nights just before cold front passes.

Paul - with all due respect to your experience and Damien peach's findings with webcams - my experience with approaching cold fronts is they are almost always preceded by a build up of thin high level cirrus - increasingly getting thicker - up to 24 hrs - or even more two days sometimes -before they are on you - are you saying that is the best time for you?

Sometimes I have found the best seeing in between storm cells

regards,CS