From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: June 9, 2009 8:59:06 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: First Jupiter of   2   0   0   9!

Hi Jim;

I forgot to mention another predictor of lower turbulence is the NAM forecast:

http://weather.unisys.com/nam/index.html

especially if you look at the 300 millibar charts:

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

If your in the pink, you should have good skies, assuming local turbulence isn't too bad.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "jimchung2338" <jim_chung@...> wrote:

CSC predicted that seeing in Toronto in the predawn would be good so I woke up at 3:30 and found a spot beneath my huge silver maple that gave a clear SE view.  I wasn't able to wait for Jupiter to reach apogee so captured it as the sky was starting to lighten just before 5 AM.  Seeing was quite stable.  Captured with my C8 @ f20 and PGR Flea mono camera, stacked about 350/1200 per RGB channel.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/June2009bJupiter.jpg 

My summer astro project is to retrofit some mirrors into a 16" truss dob that I acquired and build a Poncet platform to allow planetary imaging.  Stay tuned!

Jim