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[Pete Gorczynski]

Seeing was about average both nights with slightly better seeing on the 15th. The jet stream was 85 knots on the 14th and 55 knots on the 15th. Thank you Kiwi Paul for pointing out the windy.com web site!  Mars is now entering its best period of the season so I go out as long as the sky is clear, good seeing or bad.

 

Pete G.

 

 

 

[Foc]

Really nice images!

[RedLionNJ]

Last night must have seemed like deja vu, all over again

 

Really nice, Pete.

[KiwiRay]

Great work, Pete, especially the second image which looks a bit clearer. And I agree with you on going out each night regardless of the seeing forecast. It's going to be a long time before Mars is this close again.

[gregghallinan]

These are beautiful Pete. They are as good as I've seen anywhere from Mars this year.  Seeing has been generally poor here too so I have been watching Windy.com as well as meteoblue, which just interprets the same data to make a prediction about seeing. I interpret these data in a probabilistic sense,  rather than as a firm prediction.  One of the best tools I have locally is the Palomar Observatory seeing monitor,  which works reasonably well as an indicator of overall seeing on a night for me, despite being 90 miles away. 

[Borodog]

Amazing, Pete. I copied these images and pasted them into GIMP so I could blink them. It has it all, rotation, getting bigger as it gets close, and changing clouds at the south pole. Very cool.

[Rick Runcie]

Fantastic images, especially considering the "average" seeing, but it appears your images are consistantly excellent regardless of the seeing.

Best regards, Richard

[dcaponeii]

Great results!!

[JMP]

These are terrific!  

[Kokatha man]

Great..!!!   

[spaceju]

Excellent !

[Kiwi Paul]

Fantastic results!
Cheers Paul

[R Botero]

Your images are always superb Pete! 

 

Roberto