Weather for us

[magician]

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOBBIES/astronomy.asp

You may find this site useful, click on hobbies, click on astronomy, make sure you have put in your post code, there is even information on the jet stream,this affects us a lot more than you may imagine, it's a great site play with it!

Cheers Frank

[Caz]

Metcheck is a bit of a dirty word to me Frank...

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Its 80% reliable, but only occasionaly.

Best ones I've found so far are the Met. office and http://uk.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/HD6 (currently set for my location, but you can change that easily).

Captain Chaos

[MartinB]

Is the jet stream good or bad for seeing?

[lunator]

Martin

Jet Stream = poor seeing

Lots of motion in the atmosphere

[magician]

Hi Martin,

Quoting from Martin Mobberley's book (Lunar and Planetary Webcam user's Guide)

"When high jet stream winds are over your observing site,they will appear , in a defocused planetary image,like a river of water streaming through the eyepiece. This wll result in extremely"fast"seeing,with no hope of even a webcam freezing planetary details,

-At this point he advises'Go to Bed'!

Cheers Frank

[MartinB]

Aha, I've seen that and thought it was the shiraz effect. Now I know better thanks.