Fighting a losing battle out there tonight

[acharris77]

Hey all, so tonight I finally get a clear night after all this heavy rain and clouds, so I go out and get the scope setup. So wind is a little, but nothing major. Give the scope 20 mins cooling time, then after about 5 mins, the wind start picking up that high magnification is impossible, due to the vibration and bouncing caused by the gusty wind.

And also the skies are not the best for DSO with the moon lighting the sky up like a xmas tree. So I decided to pack up and give up after 20 mins due to conditions. And probably now got another week or so of bad weather coming in.

So not a happy bunny about tonight feels like I wasted an hour of my time setting up and packing away and not getting any viewing done, but I suppose that is the nature and the curse of our hobby.

[dark knight]

We have also packed up although the night wasn't wasted. managed to do a star test for collimation, quick look at Vega and then took great delight when I managed to find the Andromeda Galaxy despite the moon doing it's best to stop us....