AR 2651 in terrible seeing

[Iainp]

Brief bursts of sun today revealing the worst seeing I've ever had, I think. (5 seconds' worth below). With no sharp image to focus on, I thought there was something wrong with the scope for ages. There were even briefer bursts of slightly better seeing, and 10% of several thousand frames collected over 2 minutes makes a decent enough image. Dodgy animations to come!

Iain 

 

[Davey-T]

That's strange Iain, I've only had brief blue bits but the seeing looked OK here.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great shots under the conditions mate, think my seeing was a lot better today. well done. charl.

[Iainp]

7 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

my seeing was a lot better

 

9 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

That's strange Iain

Yes, odd. If it's bad for one of us it tends to be the same for all. I had to move the scope later, and seeing was just as bad, so wasn't some local problem like a nearby hot roof or something

[Davey-T]

18 minutes ago, Iainp said:

 

Yes, odd. If it's bad for one of us it tends to be the same for all. I had to move the scope later, and seeing was just as bad, so wasn't some local problem like a nearby hot roof or something

David Smith said his seeing was bad so not sure why, mind if the gaps get big enough for imaging here the seeing will no doubt nose dive.

Dave

[laudropb]

Hi Iain. Seeing was pretty poor here too.

[Iainp]

1 minute ago, laudropb said:

Seeing was pretty poor here too

 

1 minute ago, Davey-T said:

David Smith said his seeing was bad

Ah good, I feel normal again!

[Davey-T]

You can blame the jetstream maybe but it looks to be missing David.

Dave

 

 

[David Smith]

Ha, don't let that jetstream image fool you! The seeing here was almost as bad as Iain's this morning.

[Macavity]

Not good here either (That's my excuse)! lol 

I usually put a first avi through basic Registax 5 - See how many
frames it can ALIGN on to "90%" quality. On a good day 80%?
Today at 10:50 just 40%; at 11:20 just 30% etc. At that point,
I Barlowed the image and barely got 10%???? BUT (as ever!) I
am varying "other things" at the same time!

I don't think *I'm* going to get much out of today's data??? 

[johnfosteruk]

I didn't get anything until about 5pm and the seeing wasn't good then but of course that's a given but I'm going to blame the jetstream.

Cracking image Iain given the quality of the data.