LewisM
02-07-2018, 09:57 AM
Had set up perfectly last night - polar alignment was exactamundo, seeing was really good, moon wasn't up for a few hours, and I managed to get all set up in daylight. Things were just SPOT ON!
Started my imaging run of my planned 2 panel mosaic of NGC4372 and the Dark Doodad. Centred on the cluster as the starting point for the planned 10 hour mosaic (5 hrs each panel - maybe more) - long landscape style rather than the common square. Got 1 hr done, rechecked focus (had drifted a LITTLE, but not too bad), reset the sequence after refocus, and left it alone for another hour. Went back and checked it and my guiding was beeping...
My image sequence had stopped...
All my plugs were tight. Weird. The Starbook TEN had restarted. Did we have a temporary power glitch?
Followed my extension cord back inside. Saw it was now plugged into the OTHER power point on the other side of the room. My wife was sitting at her work table, headphones in, crunching numbers... I tapped her on the shoulder.
Me: "When did you replug me back in there?"
Wife: "Oh, about an hour ago"
Me: "Why? I just lost over an hour imaging"
Wife: "Who cares about your pretty [sic] pictures, my laptop was running out of battery".
At that point I gave up, as I knew there was no point continuing that train of logic. I may just go back to running off battery at this point, unless I can find a friendly sparky to fit me an external power point :lol:
I looked over at the now rising Moon, saw the fog and cloud forming anyway, and kinda thanked her because it was now -1.7° at 8pm :eyepop: Was only going to get worse (and it did - was VERY bitter here last night).
So, anyway, to at least show SOMETHING, here's 1 hr 10 min on NGC4372, with LOTS of TGV Denoise and boosts :) :P Shown at large reduction and 75% quality...to hide the noise and gaps :lol:
With trepidation, now with an AstroBin (as in GARBAGE) link: https://www.astrobin.com/full/353879/0/
Started my imaging run of my planned 2 panel mosaic of NGC4372 and the Dark Doodad. Centred on the cluster as the starting point for the planned 10 hour mosaic (5 hrs each panel - maybe more) - long landscape style rather than the common square. Got 1 hr done, rechecked focus (had drifted a LITTLE, but not too bad), reset the sequence after refocus, and left it alone for another hour. Went back and checked it and my guiding was beeping...
My image sequence had stopped...
All my plugs were tight. Weird. The Starbook TEN had restarted. Did we have a temporary power glitch?
Followed my extension cord back inside. Saw it was now plugged into the OTHER power point on the other side of the room. My wife was sitting at her work table, headphones in, crunching numbers... I tapped her on the shoulder.
Me: "When did you replug me back in there?"
Wife: "Oh, about an hour ago"
Me: "Why? I just lost over an hour imaging"
Wife: "Who cares about your pretty [sic] pictures, my laptop was running out of battery".
At that point I gave up, as I knew there was no point continuing that train of logic. I may just go back to running off battery at this point, unless I can find a friendly sparky to fit me an external power point :lol:
I looked over at the now rising Moon, saw the fog and cloud forming anyway, and kinda thanked her because it was now -1.7° at 8pm :eyepop: Was only going to get worse (and it did - was VERY bitter here last night).
So, anyway, to at least show SOMETHING, here's 1 hr 10 min on NGC4372, with LOTS of TGV Denoise and boosts :) :P Shown at large reduction and 75% quality...to hide the noise and gaps :lol:
With trepidation, now with an AstroBin (as in GARBAGE) link: https://www.astrobin.com/full/353879/0/