The Dutch Observatory

February 27, 2010 on 11:26 am | In Mars, Planets | Comments Off

The weather has been very bad again for almost a week.  Yesterday I tried to image Mars and made 4 runs but the result were pretty bad, so I did not post them.  The same as I did last week twice.  Today the conditions were a little better although I did not think seeing came above 2/10 because of occasional winds, the jetstream, and my buddy Stephen Ramsden kept sending those planes departing Atlanta over my house, in fact it looked like he wanted to position them in the middle  between Mars and Pollux and he was pretty good at that.   The result was that all of the runs were impacted at least in one color by a vortex created by those planes.  Anyway, the seeing was not good anyway, so I forgive Stephen.  Here Mars on the 27th February around 2:13 UT