Friday, April 29, 2016

twisted

Checked the most recent image from BGO for the region around Arrakis. Down from 10 to 2 seconds now...

mu Draconis region with luminance filter

North is up; east is left. Ugh. Weird artefacts! Almost like the mount was twisting or shaking. I wonder what the winds were like?

Can still see the dual diffraction spikes alluding to the two stars which is good. I'll try one second and hope for stable conditions.

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Checked the conditions...

Weather. Nothing really unusual: temperature 0.9 °C, humidity 50 %, wind from the SW at 1.6 km/h, gusting to 11.3, pressure 1008 hPa. The wind did switch around to WNW. That's about a 90° change. Still, pretty minor.

Elevation details. At 2:39 AM local time: altitude: 75°; airmass: 1.0. Fantastic.

I wonder what happened...

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Faster still, to 1 second.

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