Bit windy!

[Rustang]

It seems you can still image in the wind!! Anyone else out!? 

[callisto]

Yeah, it's a bit Mork and Mindy up here too 🌬️

[Marki]

Bit unpredictable here earlier so I didn't want to risk it. Popped out for a while with some binos just now and the transparency looks pretty good. Still very gusty though. Good luck to everyone out there tonight!

 

[DaveS]

No. The wind's a bit unpredictable tonight, and I have nothing to hold the obsy roof down when it's open. It doesn't even have to be blown right off as getting it back on the rails would be a huge undertaking for me working alone.

A bit frustrating as I have a recalcitrant focuser to sort out. Hopefully just a firmware / software clash which I've fixed. I think.

[tomato]

Got 90 mins of half decent subs despite a bit of a gale blowing, one advantage of a dome, especially if your target is on the leeward side.

[Rustang]

Managed to finally get some windy SII data, 2.5hrs worth of 10mins subs and they appeared to all be ok, pleased I risked a windy nights imaging, and well done to my sturdy set up! 😊

[LukeSkywatcher]

It was a bit fierce windy here yesterday, accompanied by monsoon rain showers. Today, its a gorgeous sunny morning.

[dannybgoode]

I was out for an hour and a half or so testing whether I could get my Sony RX10 to be fully controlled (bar focussing) by KStars/EKOS.  Got as far as getting it to plate solve and successfully saw M81 and M82 on-screen before a couple of random technical issues killed the connection to Astroberry from my workstation.  My the time I had got them resolved the clouds had rolled in.  Still, an interest bit of experimentation - I am really interested to know what data I can pull in using it

 

[DaveS]

13 hours ago, tomato said:

Got 90 mins of half decent subs despite a bit of a gale blowing, one advantage of a dome, especially if your target is on the leeward side.

I seriously considered a dome when I was planning my obsy, but not being much of an engineer would have to buy the stuff off-the-peg. When I costed a 2.2m Pulsar, plus the relevant automation there wasn't much (Any?) change left from £7k.