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