Was last night seeing, completely pants?

[earth titan]

Can anyone else confirm that seeing last nights was officially pants?

Hope so, otherwise I have optics issues.

Jupiter was particularly poor.

[swamp thing]

Tom

Local seeing can vary a huge amount.

What's pants at one house could be awesome at another just up the street.

[scarp15]

The seeing up here last night was excellent, lunar observing with 15x70's. 

[SimonfromSussex]

Seeing down here in Sussex was pretty good last night Tom.

Jupiter and the moon were really steady, only mars jumped about a bit but that was down to it being quite low and improved as the night went on and it got higher.

I think Steve is right though, it can vary all over the place.

[earth titan]

Tom

Local seeing can vary a huge amount.

What's pants at one house could be awesome at another just up the street.

True.

Think I had cooling issues and haven't got round to wiring up the fans on the new scope yet.

[melsky]

Seeing in Oxfordshire was not brilliant last night, I was trying to image the moon with my MN190 and having great difficulty.

Mel

[Stu_]

Northampton was pants, too much hazy cloud about :-(

[Hobbes]

Seeing was fantastic in Surrey. I had the magnifcation racked up to 200x and could have gone higher.

Enjoyed watching Io transit Jupiter and could see a fair bit of detail on Mars.

[JamesF]

Definitely not brilliant here.  Certainly not at Mars-type altitudes, anyhow.

James

[knobby]

Very wobbly in Essex...

[Steve Ward]

Was decidedly 'orrible here last night , wading through piles of Mars I captured but struggling to get much out of it.

[Myopicus]

Last nights seeing was clear and steady in Dorset.  Steadier than me, that's for sure!  

[cotterless45]

Seeing started out as superb, then went downhill. Didn't bother checking my pants as LeeB came up. He always brings the clouds with him!

Old Nick.

[Karen]

Not that good here. The moon looked like it was under water and l could only see the two central cloud bands clearly on Jupiter. It is all to do with the temperature drop. Warm day, cold night.

[John]

One of the best nights for ages here last night. 500x on the moon and sharp as anything. Judging by the feedback above the seeing conditions are very inconsistent around the country though. JamesF is not that far from me and did not have much luck.

[ccfcbob]

Wasn't perfect here but with what we have had to put up with this winter I was grateful just to be able to get out.

[JamesF]

One of the best nights for ages here last night. 500x on the moon and sharp as anything. Judging by the feedback above the seeing conditions are very inconsistent around the country though. JamesF is not that far from me and did not have much luck.

Indeed.  The Moon was flapping like a flag in a stiff breeze last night

James

[Moonshane]

for me it was not bad overhead, rubbish to the west and not bad to the south. it seemed to rapidly deteriorate with the onset of thin cloud.

[earth titan]

Heard the weatherman talking about something called a 'temperature inversion' early this morning, which causes hot air to rise and causes cloud cover later not day. Something caused by upper atmosphere movement.

Guess that might explain it!

[chiltonstar]

Good to excellent here S of Oxford at 23:00 to 24:00 - lots of detail on Mars.

Chris

[Luke]

Interesting to see this, I was wondering if it was just me as some folks had some cracking views of the Moon last night. While there was me giving up the thought of using a Barlow when imaging the Moon, it was wobbling a good one my way in Bedfordshire and I was starting to think perhaps my dew heater was too hot?!! But i don't think it was that, it's been much steadier view-wise before with the heater on the same setting.

[Pig]

Northampton was brilliant last night between 8 & 10:30pm, best seeing in a long time

[SteveNickolls]

No, last night added two more Messiers to my list using the Apollo 15x70's so I was a very happy bunny indeed. Sorry however that it was so poor for you but things will get better.

Cheers,

Steve

[JamesF]

The seeing here seems to be much improved tonight. Could be a long one if it doesn't go downhill later.

James

[earth titan]

Full cloud cover here. Was hoping to have an extended planetary session as well