From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: March 6, 2009 9:50:46 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Rupes Recta

Hi Ray;

Thanks for the kind words.

This was a very rare low turbulence night, so with good seeing you can actually take advantage of the resolution of the scope and camera. I'll likely not get another night like this for the rest of the year, although I'm hoping tonight might be good too, once this wave of turbulence passes by at around 10 pm.

The NAM forecast

http://weather.unisys.com/nam/init/nam_300_init.html

at the 300 mb seems to be the best indicator of seeing, although it isn't 100% reliable.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

On 6-Mar-09, at 4:02 AM, Ray Byrne wrote:

Milton,

The detail in you image is very impressive (little tiny craterlets for instance) and the contrast is perfect I'm sure you're very pleased with this I know I would be