[vsnet-chat 1484] observing

[aah@nofs.navy.mil]

This has been one of those frustrating weeks in the life of a
professional astronomer.  First, jet lag kept me from observing
late on the one good night of the week.  Then, just enough
cirrus was present on other nights to prevent all-sky photometry.
Tonight, the seeing is varying between 2.5 and 4.5 arcsec, making
reductions very difficult and limiting how faint I can go.
 
The question for you visual observers:  what do you do on nights
of variable seeing?  Can you achieve your normal accuracy?  The
only good thing for us CCD observers is that the images are so
spread out, we can go a magnitude or two brighter than normal
and catch those stars we used to do with photoelectric photometers.

Arne

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