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Originally Posted by leon
Ah Steve, so I'm not alone with the dangers of imaging, It would be good to hear some of the very painful and embarrasing situations people have encountered in the name of Astronomy.
Leon
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Another funny one I recall, probably 20 or so years ago when I was
doing some wee small hours viewing:
Most of us amateurs lost our fear of the dark and being alone at night
in a backyard....every noise you pretty much know what it is....
Anyway...
The family dog used to come over and have a cuddle and sniff and then go
back to sleep on the verandah on the same bit of carpet.
She had a choker chain type collar on and I knew she was up and
about when her chain rattled in the dark.
All was dead quiet when all of a sudden I could hear this growling , snarling dog thrashing about in the dark, hitting something metal and
I panicked, thinking she was fighting something feral in the darkness and
having a hard time. What the bloody hell was she fighting with.
My heart was racing, I was truly s*** scared!
More metal clanking and banging, she was fighting all over the verandah , banging into the backdoor, verandah poles , pot plants.
I raced over to the shed to put the back lights on only to find she
had gone to sleep over the yard sink grate,
her collar nametag had dropped into the grate, when she woke up she had the yard sink steel grate trapped to her neck, she had panicked and
had been thrashing about trying to get it off.
Steve
