Frustrating!

[iceman (Mike)]

Got home from the talk at ASNSW meeting last night, with some clouds and fog rolling in, but I was hoping the morning would be clear to image Jupiter.

Set up the mount and went to bed..

FORGOT TO SET THE ALARM!! Argh! Woke up at 6:30am with daylight upon us, no chance to do any imaging

I haven't done any imaging for a week, getting withdrawals!

I will not forget tomorrow morning!

[sheeny (Al)]

Whoops!

I know how frustrating it gets... may last imaging run was nearly 3 weeks ago. Yesterday I got home from work and there was a gap in clouds so I whipped out the PST and had a go at imaging with that now that I know how to get focus... but struggled with the seeing and achieving contrast...

Al.

[Striker (Tony)]

How do you think I feel...3 months for me...grrrrrrr
hahaha about sleeping in....lol

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Set up the mount and went to bed..

FORGOT TO SET THE ALARM!! Argh! Woke up at 6:30am with daylight upon us, no chance to do any imaging

Sleepy-Head !

[leon]

Yea, your right Tony, i'm starting to get withdrawals too, i wish that mount would get here.

Cheers Leon

[Ric]

I know how you feel Mike, I get the clouds rolling in at twilight every evening for about the last five weeks. It's very frustrating to say the least.

Cheers

[g__day (Matthew)]

Well I spent two hours last night trying to track a few stars - goto's were about 7 degrees off, PHD couldn't cope and get calibrated - which I thought very wierd. I re-started the mount twice and fiddled alot - 'til I worked out that our guests 5 year old had wandered in, pushed buttons on the hand controller and had somehow managed to turn the tracking off!

Arggh to all the wasted time and stress! This is on top of this week fixing a troublesome UPS, changing a dying video card on my PC, fixing a printer that only prints the postscript commands rather then their contents, fixing a network that was getting IP addresses from a NAS rather then our router (long story there), getting stuffed up by a new powersupply that refused to work on 3 PCs in a row (to be RMA'ed), installing a new motherboard and CPU (that supports both AGP and PCI-express, and DDR1 and DDR2 RAM - an ASRock), testing to see if case fans are shorting, figuring some crazy case cabling labelling, and recovering a 300GB striped RAID 0 array, then re-installing all my software.

So the last thing I wanted was more technology failures!

[xelasnave]

Hey Mike, wait until you set the alarm, wake and say..dam it I gotta go back to bed I am too tired … to leave a clear perfect sky . Just sleep well while you wait for a good night, you are a busy man so be happy to get some rest . You gotta be fit to be an astro photographer, able to do 5 nights without sleep and no stimulants to cloud the fitness required . But you gotta rest from time to time.
All the best with your next attempt.
Alex

[davidpretorius]

i actually imaged my best run at 6:38am this morning, so you had 8 minutes to get out of bed, polar allign and start image................easy!!!

better luck tomorrow!