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Do bad nights come in threes?


wuthton

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I'm feeling pretty miserable and sorry for myself this evening, tonight and the previous 2 clear nights have been ruined by equipment failure.

Night No. 1

Guilty party - Filter wheel.

Diagnosis time - 3 hours

Problem - For some unknown reason AA5 does not play nice with my filter wheel. When using position 5 the wheel carries on drifting (slowly enough for one sub though), I swapped to APT and all would have been good but it had clouded over.

Night No. 2

Guilty party - Dew Heater

Diagnosis Time - 1 hour

Problem - Guiding failed then I couldn't find a star and I couldn't understand why. A dew tape had failed after years of service, I gave up and watched TV.

Night No. 3

Guilty Party - Guiding camera

Diagnosis time - 5 minutes

Problem - My guide camera appears to be dead and will not connect. I very much doubt an inanimate object has previously withstood such a level of verbal abuse as was dished out this evening.

Hopefully bad things only happen in threes.

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I very much doubt an inanimate object has previously withstood such a level of verbal abuse as was dished out this evening.

Oh I think I could give you a run for your money there ... :-)

Hope you're right about three's the limit.

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If only it were so :smiley: Looks like it's going to be more than three bad nights down in this part of Spain :BangHead:

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Spain! Spain!! Spain!!!!!! My sympathy is very limited. Tonight was the first clear night with reasonable visibility for weeks here in Blighty (curse those fireworks), my imaging session was fully planned ready to go.

Rather than watch TV I have chosen an evening of self flagellation updating our work's website to improve it's search engine optimisation. Unfortunately I'm fully optimised with Merlot so a revisit may be prudent in the morning.

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I know how you feel, had a bad time last night :(

Perfect clear sky forecast till dawn, the first time I've been out with the scope in about 6 weeks.

Everything set up, PA excellent and dslr battery at 50%....."that will last" I think to myself.

Needless to say 50% doesn't last as long as I thought, total dodo before midnight.

Pretty mad with myself for not charging it during the day....a mistake I won't be making again that's for sure!

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I know how you feel, had a bad time last night :(

Perfect clear sky forecast till dawn, the first time I've been out with the scope in about 6 weeks.

Everything set up, PA excellent and dslr battery at 50%....."that will last" I think to myself.

Needless to say 50% doesn't last as long as I thought, total dodo before midnight.

Pretty mad with myself for not charging it during the day....a mistake I won't be making again that's for sure!

You need to get yourself a spare battery! Only then can you receive full fool-points when you've used your 50% and find out that you've forgotten to charge the spare too.

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