[AZ-Observing] Re: Recent Bad Seeing

 
 Yes, it has been very blurred. I have found that the seeing comes
in waves where it gets just plain hard to focus for awhile and then
there are rapid moving big cells, which occasionally leave a few 
seconds of useful view between them, then after some minutes the 
rapid blurring seeing returns. I was thinking the other night that
it could be air currents coming off a hot rear wall in my yard and I
purposely took a break from mars and hosed it down (not the scope,
but the wall:-) and tried again and it was still bad viewing. I also
tried at other hours like 11pm (fairly low) and 4 am and there was
not much difference. I did find that a red or orange filter helped
in a small way, and found that violet filtered was unfocusable.
 
 Also noticed that the rapid seeing also has some blurring that looks
like thin cloud would do, but last night the moon was sharp at the 
edge at all times visually.
 
 Was able to identify the major forms like Meridiani Sinus, Solis Lacus
and Mare acidalium etc. but takes a lot of time to look for other details and
not much from that effort, just a limb haze here and there. Using a 5"
refractor f12.
  
 RC 
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Has anybody else been equally frustrated by consistently terrible views of
Mars the past three nights?

Tom
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