What is the coldest...

[timthelder]

...temperature anyone here as attempted to try imaging/shooting at?

Just curious cause I tried it at 38' degrees, and it just ...ain't...happenin...(that's what also happened to my last Mars shot I posted,lol)


http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/fllcc46/cold.gif

[Radar]

Coldest weather I've shot in is about minus 2 degrees celcius. I was manually guiding that night, big mistake, sitting dead still for hours in freezing weather. Couldn't really feel the cold because I was numb. I had to defrost my body afterwards. I wasn't amused. :crazy:

[CanisMajorTom]

I have no tolerance for cold weather. as soon as the temp drops, I move inside. :biggrin:

[LJF]

I love the cold. Not much of a astro photographer though.

[Rumples Riot]

-2 celcius myself. Cold but not too bad really. It could always be worse.:smile:

[omaroo]

I've tried to run a few ToUcam shots of the Moon at -12 degrees Celcius (as measured by us on the night) on our place in Cooma. Being near the snow country, we regularly get -8, but this was a doozy of an evening.

The computer was just inside the door and cables ran outside through a gap in the door. I had a freezer suit on but was still pretty cold. Great seeing that night - but i was done after an hour.

[A.S.I.G.N_Baz]

minus 5 to minus 7 is not unusual here in Canberra. I have no warm room, I am right there beside the telescope with a million layers of clothing on....

Baz.:cool!:

[Mick]

Cold weather whats that, no such thing in the tropics. :biggrin:

The following link is cool though.

http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Dave-Feldt-Antarctica-Solar-Eclipse_1202408936.jpg

[Saj]

It is normal for myself to spend some time outdoors in -20 to -30 C since i live in northern Ontario Canada. As a matter of fact the shots i recently posted of Orion and Pleiades were taken in -33 C.

That morning i cracked my tripod trying catch Venus and Jupiter at dawn. It is generally the coldest before sunrise with -40 C windchill that particular morning.

Call me insane but when you grow up around here you learn to dress appropriately and adjust.

[omaroo]

It is normal for myself to spend some time outdoors in -20 to -30 C since i live in northern Ontario Canada. As a matter of fact the shots i recently posted of Orion and Pleiades were taken in -33 C.

That morning i cracked my tripod trying catch Venus and Jupiter at dawn. It is generally the coldest before sunrise with -40 C windchill that particular morning.

Call me insane but when you grow up around here you learn to dress appropriately and adjust.

I can certainly vouch for these temps. I stayed in Sudbury, Ontario for a while and we had -40C night after night. It was dry though - so you could, if you were game, walk around outside and not feel all that cold. Here in Oz it feels strangely just as cold because of the moisture content in the air. Goes right to the bones.