You Can Feel My Pain...

The other night featured clear skies and no moon, something not experienced in recent memory.
That was the good news.
The bad news was that it was a mite windy:

dan

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Dan,

I feel your pain. As I alluded in a post earlier this week, the one night I could do anything (which was clear and moonless as well), Murphy paid me a visit and did not relent until morning. I have badly trailed images to show for it as well.

Eric

I can feel your pain as well Dan
Great conditions are hard to come by for me this time of year.
I thought I may have some luck tonight after a fairly nice day but it started raining about 10 minutes ago.

Maybe tommorrow.

Jason

What are you guys talking about? 8O That's the Smokey Rings Nebula! 8)
Dan, I feel your pain, my friend...

We have had bad weather due to the large brushfires in The Everglades, not to mention the start of the Summer in South Florida, which means Hurricane Season and lots of rain...

Anyways, I KNOW that I won't see much of clear skies until this is all over, probably 6 months from now... (clear skies down here, at this time of the year, are normally steady, but hazy, not crisp-clear like in Winter)



Take care guys! 8)

Dan,reminds me of the first time I tried to stack some images...painful!
A post on when things go wrong would bring some interesting responcess. :S

Dan
I do feel your pain, and experienced a similar one myself a few nights ago. I woke up around 2 in the morning, set up on NGC6888 (Crescent Nebula), and went back to bed dreaming of the results of 3 hours of 20 minute HA images. Soon after I went to bed the mount and autoguiding developed a DEC bounce as you can see from the sample attached image. What makes it worse, I had to get up in the morning and go work the next day.
Steven Jindra

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