last saturday looked too iffy to make the hike to a dark site-with bush fires and smoke from back burning everywhere so I stayed home and set up in the backyard
set up with DSLR focus to take a series of 12 ten minute images, started it and went back inside to see what was happening on Ice in Space. Like an idiot I trusted the automation...and ...
anyway something went seriously wrong and I wound up with-instead of 12 images-one image 3315 seconds long!
in light polluted sydney with a skyfog limit of about 4 minutes-you can probably imagine what a single 3000 plus second image turned out like
what really sucks is polar alignment was spot on, guiding was great..and cloud rolled in as soon as I discovered the problem rendering the rest of the night useless...
maybe the planets were not quite aligned correctly for successful astroimaging ?
