Published April 2003 | Version v1
Conference paper

First daytime seeing monitoring at Dome C

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The first astronomical seeing monitoring has been made with a DIMM instrument at the Antarctic plateau site of Dome C in December, 2002 on the bright star Canopus (alpha Eri) during the daytime. In these far from optimal conditions, a median seeing of 1.2 arcsec as been obtained, with extended periods better than 1 arc-sec and 12 percent of the time better tan 0.75 arcsec.

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December 4, 2022
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November 29, 2023