Re: West coast seeing

waz wrote:
I recently moved to Vancouver BC from Quebec which is quite a bit further
east.
[snip]

David Nakamoto said on May 4:

Hopefully after you give your location more precisely (the city you live
in should be sufficient)

Now, I have come to expect that Americans are woefully ignorant of the
geography of the rest of the world (including or especially Canada),
but I've just watched two different people ask waz what city he lives
in, and he told you in the first line of his original post.

To answer waz (since I live in Vancouver), the seeing has been
especially bad this year, I think. But generally it's not so great
anyway, I suspect because of turbulence from the mountains and from
Vancouver Island in particular. The prevailing wind and weather
patterns generally come in from the west, usually from Hawaii or
therabouts.

Victoria has a professional observatory, which may mean it has better
seeing, but I can't find any historical data about that, and I don't
normally check the clear sky clock for Victoria. :)

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