Re: [APML] Gassendi crater with TP2415 film and a CG11

[Robert Reeves <reeves10@swbell.net>]

> Robert, you've got to try it early at pre-dawn. We get excellent seeing
here
> in TX when these summertime high pressure areas settle in but the morning
> hours are the way to beat the heat. Excellent planatary and lunar film
> images Teiva!
> Bobby Middleton
>

Bobby,

I would, gladly, shoot in the early A.M. if the sky was there.  Here in San
Antonio we suffer from heavy coastal over runing.  We are 150 miles from the
Gulf coast, but the terrain is so flat between us and the Gulf of Mexico
that the Gulf heavily dominates our weather.  Between midnight and 1 AM, we
get heavy clouds from the coast unless there is a very strong northerly wind
to keep them away.  It is VERY rare that we great a clear dawn around here.
When we do, it is usually in the winter when a good cold front has pushed
through.  We seem to be right on the bubble.  When something does push
through, unless it is strong, I have actually seen on many occasions that
the cold front will stall right above us and actually reverse.  The clouds
will push down to the southern horizon, then COME BACK!  Basically, this
area is lousy for astronomy.

Robert Reeves                      reeves10@swbell.net
520 Rittiman Rd.                   www.robertreeves.com
San Antonio, Texas 78209    210-828-9036
USA                                     29.484  98.440  200 meters




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