4/5ths of a southern Pleiades

[h0ughy]

Well what a waste of a night’s imaging. All 5 hours of it. I lined up on the southern Pleiades and was ready to start the session and Abba came into the dome licked my hand and startled me. I jumped back and bumped the counterweight bar. Now note at this point I was auto guiding and had perfectly framed the cluster, it didn’t scream at me for loosing the guide star. What must have happened is that I very quickly bumped the scope and moved it to another guide star which it picked up on and happily kept going. I should have rechecked it but because I saw a guide star still being guided on I left it.

So here is a sample RAW from the 5 hours of wasted 4/5ths Southern Pleiades…………

I will post the final image later after i process it:sadeyes:

[Hagar]

Bummer David. But another lesson learn't. I think we have all had these sort of nights. My best was a good few hours of Bahtinov mask image. You could see the focus shift with temprature over the night.
Live and learn.

[renormalised]

Gonna really make your day, Dave. You've also got two dust bunnies in the shot:help:

[h0ughy]

yep - i will redo this one again tonight - :help:



they will process out in the flats

[multiweb]

:lol: Only one thing to do. Put the dog on manual guiding duties for the next shot. That'll teach him ;)

[renormalised]

Too true...

[renormalised]

Just hope he's a "guide" dog:):P

[RB]

Some background music for the doghouse, h0ughy. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io

[multiweb]

:lol: Always on the ball Carl :) When they do one that can polar align I'll get one. :thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

HA HA!

"There was something in the air that night
The stars were bright, Fernando
They were shining there for you and me,
For liberty, Fernando"

They missed the bit about licking your hand though

"If I had to do the same again, I would my friend,
Fernando"

Maybe change the dog's name?

Cheers :)

Chris

[RB]

LOL Chris, that's what I linked to on YouTube in my earlier post.

:lol: :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks for the comments guys - i am not going to even bother processing the images

[Screwdriverone]

Oh, sorry Eliminator, you beat me to the punch line then, well done, I didnt check it as I cant get to Youtube in the work network...

Cheers

Chris