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My regular observing in my observatory is limited to about 3-4 nights a week and I'm normally in bed by 10. More around new moon, fewer around full moon. On weekends I'll stay up later, about 12 maybe, but it depends what I have on the next day. I need 7 hours sleep a night to be happy.
This is why I've really taken to automated observing. During week nights I typically open up the observatory at 8 or 9 when it's just got dark, get it going, be in bed by 10, and it finishes taking photo's before sunrise. I pack it up before going to work (switch off a few things, close the roof). If it weren't for this, I'd get much less hours worth of photography.
If I take a trip to the country for a night's observing I'll stay up until about 2am but I find my feet and legs are dead after then and all I want to do is sit down anyway. So I go to sleep instead.
I almost never do more than 2 nights in a row of being up past midnight. I have too many other things I want to do with my days to be able to spend them tired or sleeping.
Roger.
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