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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server
problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
"Muttsdanglers" wrote in message
o.uk... All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Yes its quiet... No its because its cold! Kev |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
-18!!!! where are you????
It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!! Paul "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
Northern Minnesota a few miles SE of the start of the Mississippi at
47N. No sea to keep us warm. Most nights are in the -30C range of late but its warmer now. Supposed to hit -16C today. Got 3C to go per my thermometer. -40C isn't uncommon here though not this winter -- so far. Lowest I've seen has been -36C. Hard to tell the difference. Lowest I tried to image was about -31C. Camera was drawing only 4% of max for cooling as it was set at -35C. Mount sometimes stalled when slewed at 30% (slowest it goes) and had to be restarted each move. Needs winter grease and I didn't do that. Have to go out to restart it. Not fun. A little push in the direction it is moving gets it going again after rebooting the mount. Grabbing a solid axis even with gloves at that temp is a tad cold. Next year I'll relub with winter grease before it gets too cold. To remove the summer grease it needs to slew at full speed which it doesn't do when much below 0C. BTW, -2C isn't uncommon in early June here. Though when I was over in your country many years ago I found, your -2 feels a lot colder than ours. Something to do with the sea air I suppose. Temps in that range there caused me to shiver. Here at that temp I only wear a long sleeve wool shirt at that temperature. Rick Muttsdanglers wrote: -18!!!! where are you???? It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!! Paul "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure,
it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it. On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:45:06 GMT, "Muttsdanglers" wrote: -18!!!! where are you???? It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!! Paul "Rick Johnson" wrote in message .. . Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". -- http://www.petersparrots.com http://www.insanevideoclips.com http://www.petersphotos.com Fellows, it's often easier to just give in to your wife. I mean, what's your word against thousands of hers? |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
"Peter Hucker" wrote
.... I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure, it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it. Peter, et al: As Rick pointed out really cold temps may have negative impacts on astro gear. Although I've not had problems with the OGS 100 mount or my MI-250 mount, I'm reluctant to run someone else's mount at -30C. Also, it is often difficult to get the PCs to boot after they've sat around in temps like that for weeks. There's a guy who posts here sometimes who is an emergency room MD and he has advised me on the dangers of exposure at -30C - like death in 30 to 60 minutes. I usually image on a remote mountain top surrounded by wildlife (coyotes killed a horse about a mile away last year) and I'm always concerned with falling down the stairs or just getting hit by the scope or losing the car or building key in the snow or getting the observatory door jammed closed. It's a long three mile walk down a dark mountain road...... and there's no cell phone service. Last night a friend and I decided that with a wind-chill of -21 C we would not go up on the hill to observe Saturn (although he really wanted to). I'll wait for warmer nights. Last Saturday I did some solar observing with my PST at a -30C wind chill. In my full gear I was warm enough but the wind keep blowing snow into my eyes and they were watering so badly that I had a hard time seeing. After about 20 minutes I gave up. BTW, Not much snow where I live in south central NY, but to get to my Adirondack camp I'd have to drive thru 6 foot deep snow (another foot forecast for tonight). I'd have to observe from a hole!! George N |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
George Normandin wrote: "Peter Hucker" wrote ... I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure, it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it. Peter, et al: As Rick pointed out really cold temps may have negative impacts on astro gear. Although I've not had problems with the OGS 100 mount or my MI-250 mount, I'm reluctant to run someone else's mount at -30C. Also, it is often difficult to get the PCs to boot after they've sat around in temps like that for weeks. There's a guy who posts here sometimes who is an emergency room MD and he has advised me on the dangers of exposure at -30C - like death in 30 to 60 minutes. I usually image on a remote mountain top surrounded by wildlife (coyotes killed a horse about a mile away last year) and I'm always concerned with falling down the stairs or just getting hit by the scope or losing the car or building key in the snow or getting the observatory door jammed closed. It's a long three mile walk down a dark mountain road...... and there's no cell phone service. Last night a friend and I decided that with a wind-chill of -21 C we would not go up on the hill to observe Saturn (although he really wanted to). I'll wait for warmer nights. Last Saturday I did some solar observing with my PST at a -30C wind chill. In my full gear I was warm enough but the wind keep blowing snow into my eyes and they were watering so badly that I had a hard time seeing. After about 20 minutes I gave up. BTW, Not much snow where I live in south central NY, but to get to my Adirondack camp I'd have to drive thru 6 foot deep snow (another foot forecast for tonight). I'd have to observe from a hole!! George N I ran a bit of new warm weather grease as you can't mix the two on the worms (both axes) and now I'm slewing at -35C at 50% speed without a problem. Paramount recommends no more than that at these temps so haven't even tried setting it faster. Before regreasing only slews were a problem. It guided and tracked just fine. I could slew with the hand control fine as well but the higher speed computer slew was too much and it would shut down. I dab of fresh grease seems to have done the trick. But I do have a problem with the FRONT of the CCD window frosting over. Have to hit the camera for 5 minutes with a hair dryer and that clears the frost. Then running the cooler without the fan keeps enough heat in the camera to keep it frost free for the night. But all that is moot with the horrid seeing I have right now. Hard focusing on a star that's doing the Cha-Cha-Cha and Jitterbug at the same time. No snow here either. We have had so little grass fires have been a problem! Only had to blow the road 4 times this year and only once at below zero (-18C) temp. Much better than last year when I was doing it two and three times a week with drifts a meter high each time. But we need the moisture. We were short over 10" of rain this summer and over 40" of snow short so far this winter. Not good. I wonder how Peter would like a frozen septic system. With no snow cover that's been a big problem up here. I put in a fully insulated system with 6" of foam around the tank and pipes. The drain field has two feet of grasses over it so is well insulated even without the snow. What snow we do have I blow over the field from the drive and parking area. That put about a foot of it on top of the grass. So we have no problem but many are in deep .... in more ways than one. Rick |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
Obviously you haven't used a snow blower to clear a km of road at -36C
I did that last year. 20cm of snow, 8 foot wide road for a km at -36C is NOT just scraping a windshield. That's no problem at all but have you stood out at those temps in a 20 km wind guiding an exposure for 1.5 hours. I did that in my film days. That's NOT just scraping a windshield. When the temp is -35C here the wind chill is more like -50C. Unexposed skin freezes solid in seconds in those conditions. Also seeing is awful, least it has been this cold snap. I had 6" seeing last night 5" tonight. Forget imaging due to seeing alone. Rick Peter Hucker wrote: I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure, it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it. On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:45:06 GMT, "Muttsdanglers" wrote: -18!!!! where are you???? It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!! Paul "Rick Johnson" wrote in message . .. Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Astro: Is it quiet on here??
Sounds fun to me, apart from the lower quality results of course.
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:50:15 -0600, Rick Johnson wrote: Obviously you haven't used a snow blower to clear a km of road at -36C I did that last year. 20cm of snow, 8 foot wide road for a km at -36C is NOT just scraping a windshield. That's no problem at all but have you stood out at those temps in a 20 km wind guiding an exposure for 1.5 hours. I did that in my film days. That's NOT just scraping a windshield. When the temp is -35C here the wind chill is more like -50C. Unexposed skin freezes solid in seconds in those conditions. Also seeing is awful, least it has been this cold snap. I had 6" seeing last night 5" tonight. Forget imaging due to seeing alone. Rick Peter Hucker wrote: I don't understand the obsession with temperature people have. Sure, it's annoying having to scrape the car windscreen, but that's it. On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:45:06 GMT, "Muttsdanglers" wrote: -18!!!! where are you???? It goes to -2 here in sussex in the uk and we moan!!! Paul "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... Muttsdanglers wrote: All i can see is 11 messages?? Blueyonder has been having a few server problems but is them or is it just that everyone is outside snapping the sky?? Paul Probably, like me, they are under clouds. Full moon is also a pain and I haven't been above -18C (0F) for 6 days now. And it is snowing. At least no Florida twisters. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". -- http://www.petersparrots.com http://www.insanevideoclips.com http://www.petersphotos.com There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and the stupid idiot's. |
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