Dang! I hate when that happens. Tyler -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of gazebo4sale@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:12 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Defeat Last night in my back yard, I finally got everything tracking well and locked on M13. Got my Moonlite focuser to really get a nice focus. Just thought one more tweak of the focus would be the ticket when my image went to a blur. Clouds, Clouds and more Clouds piled up along the Wasatch Front. I was close to getting my first real good image-but the Gods said---NOoooooooooooooooooo. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:05:46 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Defeat The bear bit my butt three times in a row! ________________________________ From: Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Defeat Joe, Sometimes you get the bear... sometimes the bear gets you! Next time will be better. Tyler -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:03 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Defeat Last night was a great one for observing or astrophotography from SPOC. Unfortunately, I struggled all night without success. At one point near dawn Patrick found M51 for me and I got a crappy picture. I then went to a bright star to focus, and when I tried, I couldn't find M51 again. I didn't have the knack of my new RoboFocuser; also, everything kept drifting. In the morning I checked whether my gear had lost its level, but it was still level. Then I checked the balance and found it was far out of balance, which must have caused the distressing failure to track correctly. Thanks, your discouraged pal, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php