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Re: Extremely poor conditions, details.
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Mar 21, 11:57 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Mar 21, 11:57 -0400
Marcel, > The setting sun looks then like in the pictures shown > here http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/mirages/mirintro.html Unfortunately I did not pay attention at the setting Sun (being occupied with Venus altitude). So I cannot say how it looked. The record of the observations shows however that the coinditions lasted several hours (at least 4), with roughtly the same errors, including some time after the sunset. I still have to read the paper you refer to carefully. Next time I will carry a camera and fotograph the horizon near the time of the altitude observation:-) Alex.
