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Or with just a few unprocessable sub-frames, lol. My "worst" fails (and my most comical ones) were: 1. One night, I did not know that the trees around me had started pollinating. By the time I woke up, the ENTIRE telescope was covered in a thick, yellow layer of pollen. 2. Another night (a year or so ago), Microsoft decided (in their infinite wisdom) that they would begin *forcing* windows updates unless you knew in advance to go in and change the Windows "active hours" which will block the updates during certain hours of the day. Well, obviously I did not know that (but I do now), and my laptop proceeded to reboot itself right after the imaging session started. 3. Another night, I get all setup, focused, polar aligned, filters setup, optics cleaned, etc....... and then? I forget to push the button (I use APT) to actually start the imaging session. All of these, obviously end up with nothing to show for in the morning! |
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Thanks for sharing Michael 😂 1. That must have been quite a mess to clear up, pollen is particularly sticky (hence its value in forensics). 2. Yes, we’ve all experienced that at some point - no respect for our ‘dark art’. 3. I’m using APT too - great console but too easy to forget something. I force myself to stay awake until the first few images have come in. |
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| Well I’ve got quite a few to share but one of my first was back in the days of film. Beautiful clear spring night I started imaging several popular targets, in those days just 10 - 15 minutes each, after a few hours the film advance was reading frame 37 then 38 on a 35 frame roll….the film had never advanced past the first frame so all the objects I imaged were on that frame 🙈😩 (made a nice montage!) after that I made sure the film was tightly wound on the reel and wasted a couple of frames to make sure it was advancing, lesson learned!! |
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| Rob as if astro photography wasn’t hard enough already. It was manual guiding that used to do it for me - I’d inevitably bump, or breath on, the guiding eyepiece, and waste another frame. |
