definitely my guidestars were either Mexican Jumping Beans or had ants in
their pants at times last night. Thing got pretty jumpy for a while but did
settle down a bit by about 3am roughly. I was imaging low on the horizon
through a lot of the night so that was part of it, but when I would look up
at the sky from time to time, even the brightest start were twinkling a lot.
But it was sure dark ujp at FP with the marine layer below and the
transparency was very good.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "P T Chambers" <ptchamb@No-Spam>
To: "Richard Crisp" <rdcrisp@No-Spam>; "The Astronomy Connection"
<sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [TAC] OR Peak, 8/28. Magnificent
> OK, I feel better now. I was at Evergreen last night (and will be
> tomorrow) and saw the "jumps" in the image on the laptop. The entire
> planet would suddenly move 1/2 planet width but wasnt going through the
> usual "flattening/oblonging" routine. Must be related to "cell" size.
>
> I thought maybe the seeing was worse there but this fits Richards
> description exactly.
>
> ---------
> Phil Chambers [ptchamb@No-Spam] (S.F. Bay Area - Calif. USA)
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Richard Crisp wrote:
>
> > John and others
> >
> > Last night the transparency and darkness at FP were good, but the seeing
was only so so. Lots of twinkling lots of jumps in my guidstar tracking. I
guess the upper air was disturbed, but did not consult any jetstream maps.
> >
> > My guide stars were jumping around quite a lot with the ao7, more than
typical.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: john gleason
> > To: The Astronomy Connection
> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: Re: [TAC] OR Peak, 8/28. Magnificent
> >
> >
> > DSO imaging early part of the evening, then switching to Mars imaging
for about an hour, then visual to conclude the night. All depends on seeing
conditions. If the seeing is lousy, I'll stick to DSOs and spend only a
little time observing Mars.
> >
> > dvj
> >
> >
> > Original message attached.
> >
>
>