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GeoffW1
05-12-2009, 10:46 PM
You must have had a night like this. I decided I would spend a while peering in my drainpipe, and wheeled it into position.

The telescope fought me every inch of the way:

flat batteries in the laser
mirror centre spot falls off
flat batteries in the Argo
encoder error on azimuth
printer died when I tried to print a few star charts

Finally, I managed to outsmart the dumb @# piece of metal, glass and plastic. Victory!!

I looked up. Yes, the cloud had rolled in.

*Sigh*

DavidU
05-12-2009, 11:17 PM
Sounds like my night tonight!

sheeny
05-12-2009, 11:34 PM
:lol:Yep! I know where you're at!

It can be a very tough game at times!

:)

Al.

GeoffW1
06-12-2009, 12:12 AM
I just needed someone to whinge to :hi:

Robh
06-12-2009, 03:20 PM
On the bright side, it should all be sorted out for next time.
Don't know about those clouds though!

Regards, Rob

Kevnool
07-12-2009, 09:50 PM
Been there done that for most of what you said.
Cheers Kev.

multiweb
07-12-2009, 10:03 PM
Had a similar "cloudy" experience last night. I set up the C11 with the Hyperstar, all the cables, polar aligned, all set. I waited until 2:00am. It was supposed to clear about that time. Humidity was so thick you could feel it raining on you like a mist. Went to bed at 3:00am tired and P***d off. Woke up at 7:00am to a blue sky. :shrug: