going it alone

[sean]

:mad:Two nights ago, the skies over the south:cool: Cumbria coast were excellent for viewing. I took my mead ds2114 to a hill overlooking Morecambe bay, set it up and waited for dark, for thirty to forty minuets it was quiet and lonely. I started a guided tour on the go-to system, I was really enjoying the night sky when at about 10.30 the whole world and there dogs turned up. Over the space of the next hour a dozen or more people with dogs, torches and radios appeared,all nice and friendly and experts on astronomy, wanting a look through scope. After two or three had knocked the tripod to bits then commented, they could see nowt I packed up and came home. Dose this happen often?

[Doc]

You need to find a quieter place Sean. Was it a place frequented often by tourists.

[Astro_Baby]

Never happend to me yet - but then I observe in a VERY empty space.