She's Cracked

[Billy- the -Badger]

Well finally the months of Subliminal Messages have paid off.

Got the nod from the Memsaab last night and went SILLY

Here's the list

Altair Wave series 115 F7 ED Triplet apo

HEQ5 PRO Synscan

Altair 60mm Miniguider

Canon 1100D Body only (astro modded)

Pixinsight Licence

Backyard eos Licence

And a T Ring

So in conclusion I would like to apologise for the cloudy nights for the foreseeable future.

THE BOXES ARE COMING WOOHOO  !!!!!!!!!!

[paul mc c]

Damm.....that looks good....what is your secret that give you the go ahead.

[PhotoGav]

Once the skies finally clear after that awwsome shipment is unboxed, you are going to have some fun!!!!!

Congratulations!

[knobby]

I want your wife 

[todd8137]

You could have got this a lot quicker if you would have said nothing

Pat

[Singlin]

I can relax now as my wife has seen through my "Economical with the truth " tactics and chuckles about it.

[OneEyedSam]

Theres a related discussion going on here

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/200331-how-to-tell-the-wife/

[paul mc c]

I want your wife 

To late he may have sold her to get that gear .

[Billy- the -Badger]

Ok so now I'm officially freaked out.

As part of a casual conversation I happened to mention that I was concerned that my webcam may not be up to the job of autoguiding.

And the wifes reaction to this was.....

Well go buy a better one.

Am I dreaming.

[knobby]

Ok so now I'm officially freaked out.

As part of a casual conversation I happened to mention that I was concerned that my webcam may not be up to the job of autoguiding.

And the wifes reaction to this was.....

Well go buy a better one.

Am I dreaming.

Two thoughts spring to mind...

1 what's she after :-) ?

2 get in there before she changes her mind!

[Blazar]

OR she has been abducted and replaced by visting astronomy freindly ET's....

[Billy- the -Badger]

Don't care as long as I can still spend money.

And the QHY5-II Arrived today.

[knobby]

You bad boy :-)

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Looks like a very nice set-up. Congrats

[todd8137]

Going from one headache to another great kit set up now let the real games begin ,headaches on the way I fear

Pat

[knobby]

The price of that lot gave me a headache :-)

[Billy- the -Badger]

set it all up last night.

polar alignment spot on

Guiding Great

Then realised I cant focus on anything

Not enough inward travel

Spacer time

[PhotoGav]

I feel your pain, how darn typical!

Last night was good though - finally some clear skies, despite the clouds trying to mess things up as soon as everything was set up. I did learn one thing - make sure the camera battery has enough charge for the imaging run you intend to attempt. Flashing battery icon after about an hour, so I suspended the image run, popped out the battery, replaced with new one. Couldn't reconnect camera to BackyardEOS and PHD froze... Had to restart the laptop, redo tracking and finally get imaging again. A long and easily avoidable pause in the process and lost quite a bit of imaging time.

I guess we do learn from our mistakes though!

[knobby]

Maybe worth looking at a way of powering the cam from a power tank?

[PhotoGav]

Absolutely.

Though I am on the verge of implementing an even better solution: an Atik 460EX !!

[knobby]

Like it !

[Billy- the -Badger]

My shopping hasn't stopped yet.

Bought a power pack from halfords.

A Bahtinov mask.

And 2 10Metre active usb leads.

Get in

[PhotoGav]

Have you used any of it yet?!

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[Billy- the -Badger]

Had the setup out in the garden last week.

And had a complete mare. Operator error caused the

Mount to believe that Orion was under my shed.

So weather looks promising for tonight

Take two

Pray for me

[PhotoGav]

The very best of luck! It is one steep learning curve, but the view gets better the higher you climb (at least, my view in the foothills is better than it was at the bottom of the valley! The summit is very much in the far distance at massive altitude and seems to always be covered in cloud!!!).