I have an old Grand Cherokee that I park sideways a couple feet from the arc of my telescope to block the wind. My house blocks another 90º. Often this is enough, but sometimes I could use a second Grand Cherokee or equivalent to block wind from another 90º.
Like this style of video very much. Seeing we all have these problems and search for solutions makes one feel not alone in this hobby that can feel at times very solitary. Windage can be a problem and hopefully your coming observatory will cut down on these problems. Something the rest of us can try beside being close to a structure like a house, or maybe a Jeep, is to try to have the setup have equal windage exposure fore and aft. Many of us in order have good Dec balance have much more surface area in front of or behind the pivot point of the axis. If one can balance the load and have surface area about the same - usually with the application of a small amount of extra weight on one end - then wind and small gusts tend to move things quite a bit less. Clear skies and calm winds. Those t’gallant breezes can be awful.
Thank you so much. I hope to start some live streams soon. Last night I had just enough clouds to mess with guiding and cause streaks also. If is not one thing, it is another.
It would be interesting to get the windspeed integrated into your image capturing, then you could graph average wind speed (or perhaps gusts) vs FWHM for a large number of images. Especially if you could then use that information to abort an image and wait until the wind died down before starting the next one
I think next time I do this I will need a separate camera on the weather read out. So I can at least show the side by side comparison. I was able to upload the weather to a server, but it only updates every 10 minutes. You do have my wheels turning on the possibilities of integrating weather. Clear skies!
Thank you for the video. I have noticed that is is impossible to image when the winds pick up to more than let's say 10-15 meters per second. I had 15 meters per second winds the other week and I could't even image for 5 seconds without getting lines instead of stars.
Wow, I feel your pain. Wind is not a normal thing for me to deal with at night. Things tend to calm down after sunset. Now that I know the wind direction I can plan my barrier. Clear skies!
An interesting session. Great video.
Thank you.
I have an old Grand Cherokee that I park sideways a couple feet from the arc of my telescope to block the wind. My house blocks another 90º. Often this is enough, but sometimes I could use a second Grand Cherokee or equivalent to block wind from another 90º.
Now that is an expensive wind block.
Like this style of video very much. Seeing we all have these problems and search for solutions makes one feel not alone in this hobby that can feel at times very solitary. Windage can be a problem and hopefully your coming observatory will cut down on these problems. Something the rest of us can try beside being close to a structure like a house, or maybe a Jeep, is to try to have the setup have equal windage exposure fore and aft. Many of us in order have good Dec balance have much more surface area in front of or behind the pivot point of the axis. If one can balance the load and have surface area about the same - usually with the application of a small amount of extra weight on one end - then wind and small gusts tend to move things quite a bit less. Clear skies and calm winds. Those t’gallant breezes can be awful.
Thank you so much. I hope to start some live streams soon. Last night I had just enough clouds to mess with guiding and cause streaks also. If is not one thing, it is another.
It would be interesting to get the windspeed integrated into your image capturing, then you could graph average wind speed (or perhaps gusts) vs FWHM for a large number of images. Especially if you could then use that information to abort an image and wait until the wind died down before starting the next one
I think next time I do this I will need a separate camera on the weather read out. So I can at least show the side by side comparison. I was able to upload the weather to a server, but it only updates every 10 minutes. You do have my wheels turning on the possibilities of integrating weather. Clear skies!
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Thank you for the video. I have noticed that is is impossible to image when the winds pick up to more than let's say 10-15 meters per second. I had 15 meters per second winds the other week and I could't even image for 5 seconds without getting lines instead of stars.
Wow, I feel your pain. Wind is not a normal thing for me to deal with at night. Things tend to calm down after sunset. Now that I know the wind direction I can plan my barrier. Clear skies!
Your cats appear to be well taken care of. Royalty, almost.
Yes they are. Royal Pain in my A..
I love them dearly.