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Yeah - jaded a bit here too.
Too much cloud this year.
Hoiking a ton of gear into a vehicle, driving to a dark sky location, setting up the G11 and drift aligning it, getting all the camera and computer hardware going, focusing, settling in and WHAM! - more bloody cloud, and then packing it all up and driving home at 9:00pm is not fun.
Unless I get an observatory soon in the back yard it's probably over for me too. I have a pretty severe bulging L5 disc in my back with sciatic nerve damage to boot, so lifting all of this stuff in and out of the car all the time is painful at the time, and causes on-going back pain for several days after.
I really love this sport, but only an obs will save it for me I think. Leaving it permanently set up would be bliss.
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