101 moments of total frustration

[stevetynant]

I'll kick it off - you get the idea

1) setting up in the garden, waiting for the scope to cool down eventually coming outside with your coffee as Saturn rises on the horizon just as the neighbors your not fussed on at the best of times turn the garden floodlights on and leave them on all night.

2) Spending hours making a setting circle for your Dob and when the big moment comes you can't find anything because you've put the numbers on it clockwise when they needed to be anti clockwise.

3) You find the perfect dark sky spot in the back of beyond that you've driven 40 miles to reach only to fnd out its the meeting place for the local boy racer community.

over to anyone - lets see if there are 101 out there

[Moonshane]

3) Setting up at dusk after work after ages of not observing and under clear skies. You have a brew and go outside as the scope should have cooled by now, and it's almost certainly dark enough and guess what......wall to wall orange clouds again.

4) Full moon and you get it - clear as a bell.

[Mike73]

5) Driving a car when the stars are out.

[Ant]

6) packing up after a very unsuccessful night - where nothing worked... only to lay in bed and suddenly remember you hadn't plugged the camera in!

Yes I've done it

Ant

[iwatkins]

7) Dropping small eyepiece retention screws into cracks between paving slabs. Grrr.

[Beulah]

8) Setting down to a nice few hours' observation when the kit fails, battery powered or otherwise.

(a Dob base that squeals like a banshee in the dead of night is not conducive to a peaceful session, for observer OR neighbour)

[Moonshane]

9) no clear nights for ages. you have arranged a night out with your partner or what have you and ..........

[Daniel-K]

10)selling your gear and the forecast changes to clear

[Astro Imp]

10) Have a great night, bring in all your gear, go to bed and remember that you left the Telrad switched on.

[Beulah]

12) Linked to Moonshane's....you have visitors coming round for a meal, copious amounts of alcohol.....and a clear, transparent night with EXCELLENT seeing. Wife won't let you do a sickie either, because she's bought some posh grub with a short sell-by-date for the occasion. The evening winds down at 1:30am and you are too pooped to go outside.

[RikM]

13) guiding in DEC will not run smoothly and you eventually realise you have polar aligned using the southern hemisphere setting circle and you live in the UK.

[Mike73]

14) NEIGHBOURS SECURITY LIGHT!!! (sorry for shouting!)

[Si Rollett]

15)Going out to lie down to watch for shooting stars and falling asleep after a long day.

[zainraza]

16) Changing your EP in the dark >.<

[stevetynant]

HA HA lol brilliant keep them coming

16 really looking forward tp learning something new at the local observing group or star party only to find out the newest recruit thinks he's a jedi knight and keeps flashing his lazer tool on and off all evening and talking about UFOs

[Atlas]

17) Watching the Fed Ex guy toss your neighbors brand new telescope onto thier porch from 10 feet away.

[Nillchill]

18) Leaving the office, to crystal clear skies but after arriving after the hours journey home, its clouded over!!!

[Moonshane]

19) After hours and hours of frustration and tool throwing, realising when it all clicks, how easy collimation actually is.

[stevetynant]

20) forgetting the latest Baader Hyperion and Xcel purchase and finding the wife got home before you and is opening the latest Visa bill

[Mike73]

21) Spend ages trying to get the perfect stiction on my dob base/lazy susan mod. Worked perfect until one day I lifted the base and the bottom part fell of and landed on my foot!

(think I could do 101 of these on my own!!)

[eddy]

22) Having your dog nearly rip everything off your mount chasing a cat through the garden...

[kev]

23) Having reassembled the mount after transporting it, not tightening the dec counterweight colar cap, so that when you turn it all around in RA the RA counterweight goes *clunk* usually on your foot.

[stevetynant]

21) Spend ages trying to get the perfect stiction on my dob base/lazy susan mod. Worked perfect until one day I lifted the base and the bottom part fell of and landed on my foot!

(think I could do 101 of these on my own!!)

lol classic

[kev]

24) Everythings set up and running, insert webcam.... Laptop dies.

[stevetynant]

25) after a night out in the cold you pack away, come home from work the next day to find out the kids have used your scope for a clothes horse and its covered in tee shirts and jeans from last nights student partying

not sure if 101 is going to be enough