From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 5, 2010 10:04:13 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Jupiter July 5th

Hi Jim;

On 5-Jul-10, at 5:51 AM, jimchung2338 wrote:

CSC was predicting very good seeing this morning in Toronto so I got up early to drag the dob out of the garage.  I should have known better because we're experiencing a heat wave here and the seeing is affected by the smog and humidity.  It was more consistent than July 2 so AstroIIDC had no problem processing the data and I waited until 5 AM to catch Jupiter near 40 degree altitude.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/JupiterJuly5b.jpg

Very nice.

I find that using the unisys  300 mb chart:

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

is usually better at predicting the turbulence level than CSC. However at 6 am this morning , it has Toronto in a narrow low turbulence trough.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle