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Visibility Forecast?

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  • 20-02-2009 4:21pm
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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,931 ✭✭✭✭


    Is there any site that forecasts what the visibility is going to be like across Ireland the way the Clear Sky Clock does for americans? Thanks.


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    Dr Pepper
    Registered Users Posts: 841 ✭✭✭Dr Pepper


    This site came up in a thread here recently.. Not sure how accurate it is but I did watch it for a while some time ago and it's predictions seemed to be fairly accurate. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch you could try the app download from the above linked thread.

    According to it, Dublin can expect cloudy skies until the weekend! :(


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,931 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Dr Pepper, that is f***** perfect, thanks man, and thanks to Smccafferty if he's reading this aswell. Looks like the weekend is going to be good, I think Comet Lulin is at its brightest tonight but it shouldn't have waned too much by Friday. I think I had it last night beside Saturn with binoculars when a big break opened up in the clouds for about 15 minutes, the sky was the blackest Id seen in months over Galway with awesome visibility, went upstairs to get my scope and check Stellarium when I came back down it was totally overcast again like it has been since Xmas, will be leaving the scope set up in the garden until Im going to bed from now on if it stays dry in case that happens again.


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    Hauk
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    Dr Pepper wrote: »
    According to it, Dublin can expect cloudy skies until the weekend! :(

    :(

    Nooo! I just bought my first telescope(Celestron Omni XLT 150) and I want to look at cool stuff! :(

    Damn the first scope curse! :mad:

    Hauk :D


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    rhonin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭rhonin


    Hauk wrote: »
    :(

    Nooo! I just bought my first telescope(Celestron Omni XLT 150) and I want to look at cool stuff! :(

    Damn the first scope curse! :mad:

    Hauk :D

    So it is you that is causing this overcast weather. :P
    Good luck with your new scope. :) Hopefully we will get a break in the weather soon. I got my first scope back in October and it was nearly a month before the skies cleared.


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,931 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    All whited out now for the next week over Galway except for one little blue square tommorow night :(


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    Hauk
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    rhonin wrote: »
    So it is you that is causing this overcast weather. :P
    Good luck with your new scope. :) Hopefully we will get a break in the weather soon. I got my first scope back in October and it was nearly a month before the skies cleared.

    Hehe. ^_^

    Thanks, it's really cool.

    The sky cleared last night for an hour and a half and I was able to get M42, Plaeides, and Saturn. So I got something. :)

    I got good focus and magnification on Saturn which was pleasing.

    That must have been torture waiting on that to clear.

    Hopefully this clears soon.

    Hauk


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    Stargate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Thargor

    Thought you might find this interesting ..

    http://www.oranmoreweather.com/


    Or for other parts of Ireland try ....

    http://www.irelandsweather.com/

    see ya

    Martin


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,931 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    That should come in hand alright, thanks Stargate.


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    Stargate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    handy ..............>>>

    http://www.quinweather.com/wxradar.php

    Stargate


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    tallman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭tallman


    Is there any site that forecasts daytime visibility? I'm a landscape photographer and mist/haze is something I want to avoid.


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    Popoutman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    Don't forget this site:
    http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/product.php?language=en&product_id=1

    This does transparency, cloud cover, humidity, wind speed, cloud-work-function (can give an indication of seeing).
    e.g. for Boher, Limerick (dark sky site for Shannonside):
    apanel.php?country=EI&adm=EI16&site=66&en
    Page link with the explanation and more site details:
    http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/product.php?language=en&product_id=1&country=EI&adm=EI16&site=66


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