Damn. That wasn't quite the timelapse I was hoping for. The wind blew one leg of my Proper Camera's tripod off the edge of the concrete slab just as it was getting properly dark.
While there was some success on the Anglo-Australian Telescope last night my personal devices were 0/3. The Proper Camera fell over, the Inaction Camera's battery ran out before the Moon had set and didn't properly expose the night sky anyway, and the Thirty Millimetre Telescope stopped taking data at 11:30 pm, just as the Moon set. That was when humidity peaked, I think the lens fogged up and caused autofocus to fail, which prevented any more data being taken.
#SidingSpringObservatory #Astrophotography #Astrodon #Astronomy
Anthony Horton
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