timthelder
November 27th, 2007, 07:09 AM
Lodriguss' Laws
It's always clear at full moon.
If it's completely clear all day, it will be cloudy that night.
Three mutually exclusive things: not having to go to work the next day, no clouds, no moon.
If it's clear with no moon, it will be bitterly cold and the wind will be blowing like a hurricane.
While manually guiding, the mount will track perfectly forever, until you look away for a second.
The guiding reticle battery will always die just past the half-way point of the exposure.
If you hear a strange noise and startle during an exposure, you will always bump the scope, and ruin the photo, and it will always be just before the end of a two hour exposure.
Any speck of dust or dirt inside the tube assembly will end up on the film's emulsion side during the exposure.
Perfect polar alignment means you will kick the tripod leg in the dark.
Perfectly guided two hour exposures will be taken on x-sync shutter setting.
Perfectly guided photos will be out of focus.
Perfectly focused photos will have field rotation.
Perfectly aligned, focused, guided, and exposed photos will be ruined by the lab.
No amount of planning, practice or expertise can replace dumb luck.
:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: I'm still laughing!
It's always clear at full moon.
If it's completely clear all day, it will be cloudy that night.
Three mutually exclusive things: not having to go to work the next day, no clouds, no moon.
If it's clear with no moon, it will be bitterly cold and the wind will be blowing like a hurricane.
While manually guiding, the mount will track perfectly forever, until you look away for a second.
The guiding reticle battery will always die just past the half-way point of the exposure.
If you hear a strange noise and startle during an exposure, you will always bump the scope, and ruin the photo, and it will always be just before the end of a two hour exposure.
Any speck of dust or dirt inside the tube assembly will end up on the film's emulsion side during the exposure.
Perfect polar alignment means you will kick the tripod leg in the dark.
Perfectly guided two hour exposures will be taken on x-sync shutter setting.
Perfectly guided photos will be out of focus.
Perfectly focused photos will have field rotation.
Perfectly aligned, focused, guided, and exposed photos will be ruined by the lab.
No amount of planning, practice or expertise can replace dumb luck.
:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: I'm still laughing!