michaelmorris
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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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Michael, that there is sufficient justification for a fully remote operable observatory! Last night was indeed finally crisp and clear (at least until 2am!), but it was my daughter’s school play (Annie, my daughter was in the orphan chorus, lovely production!). The show started at 7pm, but my observatory was up and running and I monitored it on my iPhone during the interval! We were home at about 10:30pm. Over three hours of Beehive collected and in the pot! I got a further three hours before cloud stopped play. Remote control is the way forwards...
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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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