From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: February 8, 2006 2:36:24 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Luna_20060206_MJA.jpg
Hi Folks;
The weather finally cleared up for a few hours and the wind stopped
howling, so I maaged to grab a few movies (about 13 gigabytes worth)
of the Moon. Turbulence was about 3 to 5 out of 10 and their was a
high thin cloud layer. I tried imaging saturn, but it was too low and
by the time it got any higher, the clouds had thickened up to an
opaque sheet. Unlike the high frequency jet strema type turbulence we
normally get, this was much coarser and was like slower boiling
bubbles of turbulence that "popped" erratically.
I did however get to run the Flea camera with my external peltier
cooler unit, which dropped the camera from the ambient temp of about
-5°C to -25°C. A layer of ice was coating the outside of the camera
by the time I stopped imaging. This reduced image noise a fair bit -
but I have no quantifiable numbers on how much.
TTYL..
Milton Aupperle