Garbz
13-03-2023, 10:37 AM
Greetings from light pollution central. After not touching my gear for 7 years due to moving to possibly the most light polluted place in the world now we went to a holiday house in the farmland near the border of Belgium, which is still about as light polluted as Brisbane suburbs :rofl:.
But another exciting thing happened. Good weather. So I took the telescope with me. After 7 years not using it I threw out all the data from the first 2 nights because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use it, couldn't figure out how to aim it at Polaris, couldn't remember how the guider worked, managed to freeze over my camera sensor at -50C, so after 2 wasted days of youtube videos refreshing my memory I finally got to taking some data.
About 7hours of data from the day 3 and 4 of our trip before the clouds set in. Unfortunately ... moon. Yeah I picked IC1805 because it was reasonably far away from the moon, but still the light pollution sucked.
But another exciting thing happened. Good weather. So I took the telescope with me. After 7 years not using it I threw out all the data from the first 2 nights because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use it, couldn't figure out how to aim it at Polaris, couldn't remember how the guider worked, managed to freeze over my camera sensor at -50C, so after 2 wasted days of youtube videos refreshing my memory I finally got to taking some data.
About 7hours of data from the day 3 and 4 of our trip before the clouds set in. Unfortunately ... moon. Yeah I picked IC1805 because it was reasonably far away from the moon, but still the light pollution sucked.