Cost x frustration product

[Breakintheclouds]

Hi all,

After waking up at 0430 this morning for some Mars and Orion observation, only to find the Met Office's promised clear skies were some sort of practical joke, I got thinking (as I lay in bed trying to fall asleep again) that I was very lucky when I bought my scope: the sky allowed me to use it that very night. But I'm sure most people weren't so lucky.

So what was your cost x frustration product? Multiply the amount you've spent on new kit by the number of days you had to wait to use it. E.g., £800 and a 6-day wait for clear skies = 4800. Share your results for general sympathy...

[adamsp123]

ten billion give or take, the real number I really don't want to know.

[Beulah]

This year alone (since April): 138 days X £300= £41,400

[Sam]

I was very lucky with the latest addition, a Skywatcher 250px, as I got to use it the night it arrived.

Unfortunately with the Lightbridge I got last year led to about 1 and a half weeks of rubbish weather so that's £1600 X 10, £16000 of bad weather.

[dark knight]

I bought a Hotech collimator,,at least I can practice using that on Steph's dobsonian when it's cloudy;) Not managed to use the camera remote timer/shutter release I bought last week though.

[Andrew*]

The first light of my £650 modded 450D was 4.5 months after purchase - coming up for £90,000!

[cosmic dave]

$100.000 give or take a penny. Seriously tho on the evening I took delivery of my skywatcher refractor (early this Sept) was so warm and clear I spent about two hours in the back garden observing in my boxer shorts and a tee shirt (not a nice sight) There's not many nights like that each year !!

[Spider]

Can I substitute non working mount for the clouds please, in which case my figure comes out to just over £78,000 for the mount and 2 camera's but have usedv the new scopes ok. Still Mr Hinds reckons he has cured the problem now in his email on Friday we shall see.

colin