More Excellent Seeing

[Alan White]

Yep, the air needs clearing, I found the local conditions back to normal last night, not the crazy good I have had.

Cannot complain though 😀

[John]

The seeing was OK last night but there were just too many clouds about. I had a nice view of Venus with the ED120, split Tegmine again, got Iota Leonis and Castor and then gave up cloud doging. More clouds than clear patches. It was supposed to clear later but at 12:30 am it was no better so the scope came back it.

Fortunately there are more clear nights forecast over the coming 7 days.

Maybe a bit of rain tomorrow will clear the air ? 20% chance of that tomorrow evening according to the forecast.

[JTEC]

Quite hazy here in the SE.  Enormously reduced man-made pollution - which was very obvious on the haze-free nights we had several days ago. So presumably down to natural atmospheric conditions and the contribution of pollen? A botanist once explained to me that the haze we were looking at over the Weald was substantially contributed to by pollen particles. On a more general note, it’s quieter here, there’s less light pollution and a distinct sense that Nature is moving back in. Hooray! Environmentally speaking, the one thing we mustn’t do when this is all over, is to aspire to get back to the place we were.