A New Way Of Messing Up

[gnomus]

After a long hiatus, the skies half cleared this evening.  It's been so long I have forgotten what I am supposed to do.

I am currently using an ED80 as a guide scope.  My ED80 has a Moonlite focuser on it.  Tonight, I slackened off what I thought was the focus lock screw so that I could focus the ED80.  Needless to say, I had slackened off the wrong knob - the one I loosened was the one that enables the focuser to be rotated.  

The guiding on my first sub was wavering by plus and minus 3 arcseconds (and more) as the focuser rotated about freely.  Took me 20 minutes to work out what was going on.

As I sorted it, the clouds began rolling in ......

[MarsG76]

.... as they always do... than after you pack up, clouds go away.

[StuartJPP]

Every imaging session is like a new experience...or at least long enough to forget one or two important steps....

.... as they always do... than after you pack up, clouds go away.

I never look up at the skies after I have decided to pack it up for the night...that way you don't get disappointed. It is difficult not to look, but with practice you can and it really works...

[paulastro]

It made me smile, but only because I have done just about every daft thing you could imagine over the years.  These things are not mistakes but lessons of course - unless you go and repeat it

[laudropb]

We have all been there. The main thing is that we always come back for more.

[David Smith]

After a month away from solar imaging I had almost completely forgotten how to process solar images