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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!

Tenacious Del
November 27th, 2007, 01:21 PM
lol, i can only imagine how frustrating it must be.

beren
November 27th, 2007, 02:35 PM
:biggrin: 2 and 4 happen to me all the time

Adrianf
November 27th, 2007, 05:04 PM
I have had my scope for about 2 months in that time we have had 49 days of cloud, visitors (with no interest in Astronomy)or have had to be fresh for classes the following day. Weekends have been totally wiped out with either rain or threats of rain or the bowls club across the road turn on all of the spotlights for games. Happy happy joy joy!

Adrian
PS the sacrificial lamb chop only worked once!

Radar
November 29th, 2007, 08:35 PM
I have had my scope for about 2 months in that time we have had 49 days of cloud, visitors (with no interest in Astronomy)or have had to be fresh for classes the following day. Weekends have been totally wiped out with either rain or threats of rain or the bowls club across the road turn on all of the spotlights for games. Happy happy joy joy!

Adrian
PS the sacrificial lamb chop only worked once!

I seem to have a lifetime membership to this club. :ahh!:

Ray

Adrianf
November 29th, 2007, 08:39 PM
In the last week we have had 5inches of rain and still going. We certainly need it the farmers wont be around for long if they dont get rain but the stars will be there when the rain finishes.

Adrian

CloudMagnet
November 29th, 2007, 09:35 PM
There are a couple more that could be added to the list.

"The speed at which the sky will cloud over is in direct proportion to the amount of time it takes to setup"

and the corollary for that is, of course,

"The length of time it takes for clouds to clear at night is directly proportional to the amount of gear that has to be packed away"