Craney
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I swear the gods themselves conspired against me tonight! First clear night in weeks and we are baby sitting our grandchild. My daughter is back an hour later than planned, so I don't get home until 11.30.
I immediately open up the observatory quickly get everything set up to start collecting some more 10 minute subs of the Jellyfish Nebula in OIII. Half way through guiding calibration then ...
.. all the electrics go in the road!!!
10 minutes later it comes back on and it's then another 30 minutes before everything is working and I start the first sub. :-)
45 minutes later the Jellyfish Nebula disappears behind next door's ever expanding Bay tree.
Ah well ......
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I share your pain Michael. School charity event tonight, I am on car park duty under the clearest sky in 3 weeks without MOON !! , wind, showers or work next day. So there I am on a Friday night just looking, whilst my scope sits under a cover at home not imaging anything. Once all the Luvvies had stopped kissing each other and said goodbye to each other for the umpteen time, I finally got home.... 10 frames of the Heart Neb...... then a peep out of the Synscan... power lost....arghhh... reset, re-align... now the Heart is too close to my chimney pot.... Ok Jellyfish.... oh is that a cloud ? Yes, parked right over Gemini and not really moving...arghh!!!.... went to bed.
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Astronomy is like sex in that you spend much more time thinking about it than actually doing it
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Out last night in the observatory, an interesting night, first night for quite awhile. I was starting to pack up and close down about 1230 when I heard someone on his phone in the lane a couple of feet away. Deciding to wait until he finished and buggered off I stayed quite until I realised he was not going away so got on with with closing down, it was then I heard him say that there was someone in his neighbours shed. It dawned on me that he was speaking to the police and I was the subject, hitting the security switch I got the lights on and greeted him over the fence, we both laughed about it, closed down and got into the house before I had to answer to the police :)
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Glad it resolved itself in a sensible manner. I have a new neighbour who now makes a point of turning lights off in his house if he knows I have the scope set up. I have not asked him directly, but I have noticed it ever since he inquired as why ' I kept moving my patio heater in and out of the shed....!!!' ( In fairness, all he had seen was a green cover and the bottom of the tripod legs.)..... but on telling him of my hobby, he was genuinely interested in helping out..... in fact he is going to chop down the Leylandii at the bottom of his garden..... it's a "Carlsberg does neighbours" scenario...
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