Re: [TAC] Bad seeing (was: OR Montebello 22 Apr 2004

From: Jeff Crilly ^lt;tac_at_crilly.net>
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 13:38:27 MST

> From: "Jim Van Nuland" <jvn@svpal.org>
>
> The worst case I've ever seen was of Jupiter at 305x. A passenger jet
> plane flew directly across the planet, which utterly vanished! It took
> perhaps half a minute to realize that the irregular glow that filled
> much of the field was Jupiter! Yes, this is a pathological case.
>

Wow. Talk about localized conditions.
Received on Tue Apr 27 13:42:59 2004


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