Re: The Seeing Stinks Here in Monterey!

From: Bob Jardine (rljtac@No-Spam)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 09:53:16 MST


--- RichardN22@No-Spam wrote:
> Well, I take back my earlier post. After half an hour of scope
> cooldown
> time, I went back out to the scope and the sky is awful. Saturn
> looks like
> I'm observing from the bottom of a full swimming pool. Yuck.

Hmmmmm...

Before cool down period, nice seeing.
After cool down period, you're at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Sounds like your warm tube's air currents must have been exactly
compensating for the atmospheric distortion at the time...
congratulations, you've discovered adaptive optics!

Bob J.

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