My crazy neighbor fires up her wood heater come early May and keeps feeding that pollution box all winter long. She must go through a small fortune in cut logs that get delivered regularly. I think a single box trailer load is something like $140 each. I would not spend that much running my split system on electricity during the winter.
More concerning is what it might be doing to the optics in my scope which is sitting on its pier in the observatory, maybe 20 metres from her smoke stack.
I bring the scope inside in wet weather, but on clear cold nights when the breeze blows from her direction it sits out there being smoked like a Christmas ham. What can i do to protect the scope, or should i not be worried about it? Can't afford to move at my age, unless its to an astro retirement home.
