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    Clear atmosphere turbulence (CAT) statistics

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    • Andrey VinnikovA Offline
      Andrey Vinnikov
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      Hi,

      I am an amateur astronomical photographer, my primary goals are planets, like Jupiter, Mars, etc. Since the visible sizes of planets are very small (10-40 arcsec), the stability of the atmosphere plays the key role to get good picture of them. So, I often use Windy fro planning my observations.

      At some point, I decided probably to move to some "good" place so that my observations were most effective. I think, for this some average over a period of time characteristic of atmospheric stability would be very useful.

      So, the question is: is it possible to generate a map of average CAT value? If Windy has data sets for, say, ICON forecasts in a form of database, this probably would not be very hard technically, like
      SELECT
      period, location, average(CAT)
      FROM
      ICON_EU
      WHERE
      local_time between 10pm and 2am
      and sky = clear
      GROUP BY
      period, location

      Such a map could be also interesting for thousands planetary photographers around the world.

      With highest respect and thanks for your great work,
      Andrey

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