Astronomy is bad for relationships?

[ASIGN_Baz]

'Twas a perfect night last night. I had a lovely family come to look at the heavens through the telescope, preceded by a lazer-guided tour of the sky, followed by a bit of a photographic slide show and explanation of the life of stars.

After they left, the moon set and the sky remained clear, crisp, cold and sharp. Upper atmospherics were pretty stable and there was not a cloud or even suggestion of dew point being reached for the entire night.

I set the camera for a few 15 minute darks and left to watch a companionable movie with my wife while my target got up above the horizon. The movie finished an I got straight into it. No sleep on a night like that! Many layers of clothing, a beanbag, blanket and settled in for the night.

As dawn broke, i switched to taking flats of the evenly lit pre-dawn sky and packed it all up.

I got 22 x 15-minute exposures all up on the nebula. That's 5.5 hours total. I'm pretty chuffed to get that much data in one night. Last time it took me a week to get that much between clouds...

I locked it up, cooked my lovely wife some brekky and a cuppa before waking her, then sat down and enjoyed the treat with her (no mad rushing around this time) and off we wandered to work. Who says astronomy is bad for family life?....Though I reckon I will crash and burn around 3 this afternoon...lol.

Stay tuned, hopefully I will have it processed and posted here by tonight.

Baz.

[ASIGN_Baz]

Hmmmm....how did this get into observing reports? I could have sworn I posted it in Imaging Deep Sky...

[Jamie]

As there were no images attached to it i moved the thread....

Sounded more like a report to be in that section....

[Mick.G.]

Nice report Daz.

Your going to sleep well tonight!

Mick.G.

[RichieJarvis]

Nice report... Glad to see that Astronomy fits in perfectly with your family life

[Jaffa007]

I see your working the magic with the breakfast & cupp, good man . To help out with the 3pm drop off...... Red Bull!! I'm telling you, that's the stuff to get.

[ASIGN_Baz]

Oh well, I may as well post the image here then...does that mean it will be moved to the images forum now...?

[Jamie]

Probably best to just post a new thread with the attached image in the correct section.

Thanks.....

[Doc]

Lovely photo and a great report.

It's nice when you are able to share your hobby with someone else.