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As a newbie I'm having heaps of "D'ohs". Not that many of the below I say "a few times"...
- I've left the Bahtinov mask on a few times.
- Another time I wasted an hour of shots because I didn't check focus after a slew to overhead and didn't realise the focuser had slipped just a little. On the small screen preview it looked ok, but zoomed in and the stars were all bloated.
- A few times I haven't been able to figure out why my gamepad and goto isn't working, thinking there's something wrong with the cables etc and then realising it was all still in "park" mode.
- Balanced the gear roughly before I put all the heavy DSLR and guidecams etc on. Forgot to do a rebalance after and couldn't figure out why PHD was working so hard and having problems.
- Similar out of balance consequence is big slews, when take finger off button the mount keeps slewing and camera banged into tripod legs.
- Walk away talking to people leaving camera shooting away. Come back and realise the batteries were flat and hour ago...
... Jeez, there's heaps more.
Non-astro related:
- when I was in high school I studied 5 years of Japanese. Grade 11 (or was it Grade 12?) we went to Japan for 3 week school trip. First time away from home by myself. Go to do clothes washing for first time. Throw all the clothes in the front-loader, along with lots of washing powder, coins in the slot, hit "go", walk away. Come back 15mins later to check and wonder why no water is in there and realised it was a drier, not a washing machine...
Same trip, we had a few hours to ourselves and a couple of us jumped in a cab to take us to a McDonald's for lunch. Took us 5 mins to explain to the cabby (no English) where we wanted to go, for him to understand, and us try to understand his "local" Japanese, then finally he just pointed and there was a big Golden Arches just a couple of hundred metres down the road...
Is there a limit to how many of these I can type? I could go on for hours. Apparently, I'm the real Homer Simpson...
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