How much pain have you endured to see the stars???

[coldlegs (Stephen)]

I'm starting to feel a lot better about myself although I do seem to be the record holder.
Cheers
Stephen

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by coldlegs

How much pain have you endured to see the stars???

Cheers
Stephen

Wanna see my bank statements

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by tlgerdes

No, really! You're kidding me.

Ahhh, the pain. Driving 3hrs with back pain, just so I can image, does that count? The things we do.

Get a bowen massage. I went from 90% of the time, 9 outa 10 agony to 1% and 1 outa 10 in 1 hours!

Miracle!

[Frostyricho (Stephen)]

A few years back,
I was outside with my first telescope and i was looking at one star. And because i was inexperienced I thought it was saturn. Anyways this was at like 11:00pm at night. My dad was in bed upstairs watching tv. I ran from outside all the way upstairs. Told my dad about it. I went back downstairs and cause my eyes adjusted from the pitch black to the bright light in his room i just ran outside and stacked it over my telescope (lucky it wasn't that expensive) and yea it hurts when all of your eyepieces from your tray fall onto your head plus the telescope. So I layed there in pain and waited for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. My dad comes outside and couldn't see me. All he saw was the telescope on the floor but not me. He eventually finds me and i get up, shake it off and go inside for the night. In the morning i wake up with a black eye, and a few cuts. Who never knew that you could be injured by your telescope.
hahahah.

[MichaelSW (Michael)]

One night I set my Skywatcher 12" Collapsable Dob up on the footpath to give passers-by a look at Saturn. (I live just next to a Brisbane railway station and there is always an early evening peak of returning commuters).

At the end of the session I carried the OTA back inside - no worries. But I tripped and fell forward while carrying the base. Didn't want to just drop it on the ground, so tried to hold it up as I landed elbows first. 18 Kg base - Not a chance with my spindly arms. Didn't let go, but almost ring-barked the end of right ring finger.

Plenty of blood and definitely a need for stitches. But it was a third Tuesday of the Month - SEQAS monthly meeting, so I gave it a wash, quick bandage, took a couple of panadols, and went to the OGM. Home via Casualty at the RBH. It was a LONG night.

Very grateful that I missed landing on the adjacent concrete slab - or it might have been an amputation instead.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

One night, after imaging in the back yard, I came inside after packing everything away and stumbled up the stairs to bed as quiet as I could as it was 4am and I still had my red headtorch on so I didnt wake anyone.

I crept into my bedroom trying not to creak the door and wake the missus.....I turned off the red torch and headed inside the bedroom.

Little did I remember that earlier that day we had moved all the furniture from the upstairs games room (so we could have our carpets cleaned in the morning) into our bedroom and my son had put a THREE SEATER LOUNGE CHAIR between me and my side of the bed, which was COMPLETELY invisible in the now dark, which I promptly banged into, barked BOTH my shins on (down to the bone) and made me fall forward onto the lounge..........

STRAIGHT ON TO something that went crash, crack, tinkle, which just so happened to be the kids 81cm LCD HD TV worth about $1500, which now had two LARGE kneeprints in the middle of the screen from my 120kg frame as well as about 1000 radiating cracks running all over the screen.......

Just so happened that the eldest son decided to put the TV on the lounge to keep it safe.

Needless to say, the amount of F$#% and S$%& and F$%#ing H$## that was screamed out, instantly woke the entire family who all rushed in to see me on my hands and knees ON the TV, swearing like a sailor, with blood gushing down my legs onto the lounge and carpet, which cost about another $200 to clean up when the carpet man arrived the next day.

So, in 10 secs, I wasted $1700 and ended up waking everyone up anyway.

Needless to say, the torch now stays on right until my head hits the pillow now.....

Cheers

Chris

[Octane (Humayun)]

You've always got the best stories, Chris!

H

[LewisM]

Actually, very little, surprisingly, apart from a sore back/neck trying to align an astrograph without a diagonal (had to go Galileo style straight through). I did head butt the OTA once, but thankfully only the dewshield.

I did ALMOST drop a 5kg counterweight on my foot once when I was getting the counterweight out. Literally a Maxwell Smart "Missed by this much". Would have broken a lot of bones!!!

Other than that, been pain and hassle free.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Octane

You've always got the best stories, Chris!

H

Lol H, I always like to set them up and have a bit of a story telling time with them, can you tell?



Cheers

Chris

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Fallen over twice. My patio is about a metre above the lawn in the back yard. First time I smashed the EQ3 my first mount.

The second time I smashed my back but protected the EQ6.

These days I take the stairs down to the lawn.