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Earl

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  1. 5 minutes ago, Mr H in Yorkshire said:

    Disclaimer: I am visual only, and I enjoy making stuff, that is my area of interest, might be tempted one day to EEA but never AP. 

    Although there are so many people agonising over their difficulties in simply getting results these past many months, it seems to me that most posts are about processing - so much so that it also seems to me that processing is the major interest for very many observers. Given that, I don't know why simply buying the best data from worldwide, best site telescopes isn't way more popular. A metre-class scope in say Namibia is always going to outdo a 5" objective in soggy UK and still cost a packet with a decent camera/mount/computing. What am I missing?

    some people are process driven artists so the tech taming is part of it, and i do get it been there wore that tshirt... still would never do it again.

  2. On 08/01/2024 at 21:15, AstroNebulee said:

    Yes giving up dso astrophotography. As some of you know I live in a 1st floor flat. My set up is just to much for me to carry down 2 flights of stairs involving 3 trips. Even though its an AzGti on 1.75inch tripod it's still heavy and cumbersome enough on its own. Then once I'm outside I have to walk around the flats to the communal area to set up. To power my set up I have to lean out my 1st floor kitchen window to lower the extension lead down the drag around to my rig. And of course repeat in reverse to pack it all up and get indoors. I may be only 50 but my knees have very little cartilage and I have a damaged tendon in the crook of my right arm, so carrying heavy items isn't easy at all and gives me a fair bit of pain when lifting. Also I cannot leave my imaging rig alone so I stay with it (not as easy as having a private garden). 

    Last night I did try to get my rig out and managed it, the setup went perfectly with pa, focus and guiding but I was in pain and just didn't enjoy imaging at all and gave up after 12 subs. I have got to the point of dreading putting the rig out, all the planning and moving that's needed is just to much for me now.

    Nick on Astro exploring on YouTube put a video out yesterday and said a hobby should be something you enjoy. And I have fallen out of love with dso astrophotography. I will still do lunar and planetary imaging with my second AzGti when I can as its a light in az mode and Skymax 90mm. Also will carry on my dslr milky-way and aurora imaging when possible. So I'm going back to visual astronomy where I started and fell in love with the hobby. 

    I won't sell my set up as I regret everything I've sold before. This may seem silly as it's money sitting there but you never know my situation may change to make dso astrophotography easier for me or more enjoyable. But I can't see it. 

    This isn't loss of mojo, it's just not working for me. 

    Lee 

    Having been very heavily invested into DSO imaging a good few years back, I would never ever do it again in this country and sub to a remote service as for £ spent you get far more return in data.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Elp said:

    This is unfortunate. It is one of the reasons RAID was invented but most people don't use it. You can split data across multiple drives to boost performance or have said data duplicate to multiple drives.

    Never seen a raid in a laptop.

    An automated backup option is essential if you dont use cloud storage (which i would also backup)

    I would always make a weekly full drive backup (image) so you can do a full restore and also the same after any major system changes.

    I dont save any user data (and if i do by accident it gets moved) on my Boot drive its always another physical drive, internal, external or NAS

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