Worst seeing ever
Well, after what seems like an absolute age of not being able to observe due to a blanket of cloud I caught what looked like a lovely clear sky last night and popped out around 6pm for a look at Venus. Wish I hadn't bothered - the seeing was absolutely abysmal. I've only been in this hobby about 18 months or so, and having heard that the Uk has generally pretty poor seeing I thought I would know what that meant by now; not a bit of it. Venus even at x72 in my 150mm Mak (fully cooled) was a boili
There might be something in this jetstream thing, yesterday and last night there was a minor loop of it over the UK, afternoon and night top two pics below, and today and this evening (when Chris reports good, I cant verify as I am clouded out still ! ) the bottom two, the loop moved off and we are between two 'bits'.
On the other hand, it is a poor statistical sample and I've not checked on where the low pressures are currently ! so ymmv