Joe, seeing from a metropolitan area generally will not steady-down until just before dawn. There is so much paved ground and hot roofs giving off heat that it just takes HOURS for the seeing to steady in summertime. Sometimes it doesn't settle-down for weeks. Altitude and greenery around the site are your best friends. The high-speed, high-altitude winds sometimes associated with mountian sites aren't nearly as degrading to the image as the "slow" seeing artifacts of the city, and even these often die-down before midnight. If I could get-away this week, I would head for the Uintahs. C. --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Hi Don, can you tell me how steady the viewing was with Mars? It has been swimming around pretty badly from SLC. Thanks, Joe
Joe Bauman science & military reporter Deseret News bau@desnews.com (801) 237-2169
_______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com
http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com