Seeing Conditions Tonight.

Hi,

Just wondering, I've seen a few people post images this evening that are clear. I just got ra and dec drives for my Celestron C6n, and was trying it tonight for the 1st time, must say it's great to be able to just look at Moon/saturn without having to track it by hand.

To the point, I was using my Neximage to get images of the moon, but it seems to be bouncing all over the place? Would this be because of seeing conditions/the motors?I have imaged saturn / moon before without the motors and the images I got were a lot clearer?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gary.

I tried imaging the moon tonight with an LPI. Towards the moons edge the image was all over the place but close to the terminator it was a lot steadier.

Result was

Jeasus, That LPI does your abilities no justice Kieran!

Hi phoenix

Yep that's what I found!

Cheers,
G

Hi Gary,
Its unlikely that the motors were causing the problem, it was probabily your seeing that was doing it.
Kieran, nice image, the moon was spectacular last night, it was hazy but still.

Gary,

Could it have been the breeze? There was quite a stiff breeze as I was coming in earlier.