It's amazing isn't it.. you fix one thing and another breaks.
We've been having a little bit of wet weather over here, enough to cause a few little problems for me. First we noticed water dripping in through the house roof around the chimney - duno why yet, it's not like it's moved! Only owned the house (any house) for a year so still getting used ot the fact that things break. Then went to my observatory last night and noticed the roof had been leeking lots, water all over one desk and the floor, the Megrez with eyepieces and stuff was in it's soft case on the desk so is all wet through. Lucky computers, main scope, camera and all that were dry.
Then today my car cost me $890 for it's "was to be" simple service!
Ya know I rekkon my car costs me about $13/day and my astronomy costs me about $2/day - I think there's an imbalance there.
Good news is the car runs like a dream now, running like it's got 50,000km on the clock not 210,000km (too many long drives to the country for astronomy...)
And then tonight finally a clear night in the line of rain and clouds so I'm getting some images taken while I listen to the occasional "drip!" from the roof into the bucket. (The observatory roof has a flat section that pools water in winter.)
Ahh well, everything goes around and around.... good and bad....
Now if only these 20 & 40 minute exposures I'm doing would happen in 1 minute I'd be able to go get some sleep before work tomorrow ...
Roger.
