You ever take one of those off? I cranked on the stupid nut for 10 minutes and it wasn't budging. I finally realized it was threaded the other way. After I cranked counter-clockwise, it came loose like it was supposed to. Its times like these when you are trying to be the manly cave-man for the wife and some stupid crap like that knocks you down a few pegs.
Anyway, back home, new flush handle installed.
Outside, Moon was bright and clear. It was about 1930 hrs. and I was tired after a very long and trying day at work. You see, I got this new department added to my realm of responsibility this week. Five new team members and a supervisor. No problem. And then I realized with growing alarm that I am now in charge of keeping about 300 ATMs serviced, stocked with cash, patched and updated, about that many in-branch cash recyclers serviced and working, and around 75 rapid-issue debit card printers. Holy freakin' cow. All that added to my other stuff of customer research, asset verification, processing transactions for 275 bank branches, courier network, and mailing about 80,000 statements and letters per day, I'm busier than a
Needless to say, I'm a wee bit stressed the heck out.
A little backyard puttering with some lunar imaging should be nice and relaxing. Oh hell no.
I got the SV102T mounted and my cabling connected, laptop humming along, mount slewed, SharpCap brought up, target centered. Now to adjust my focus with my ZWO
I clicked the in button to move the focuser and SharpCap locked up. What? That's never happened before. It finally unclenched. Click again. Locked up. Holy cow.
What happens if I click on the focuser properties button? Error message. Ok fine. SharpCap down and everything brought back up.
Click the in button again. SharpCap locks up. Ok, fine. Click Properties. A fun little dialog box pops up that says "This
No, no it is not. I can see the damn thing from where I sit. I brought up the
I unplugged the
"This
Holy. Freakin'. Crap.
I just want to tighten up the focus on the stupid freakin' Moon so I can run off some stupid freakin' video captures so I can go the freak back inside and stop freakin' freezin' my freakin' butt off out here in the freakin' backyard.
One more time.
"This
My primal hillbilly came forth at this time. I said out loud, and a bit too loudly, "I'm fixin' to freakin' remove this damn
The only response I got was some manic duck quacking the alphabet over at the pond just to my northeast. I don't know what that stupid duck was on about, but he was sure giving it hell. Maybe he was having
It's a good thing the
I sat there and contemplated for a bit and then commenced my focusing. Sheesh. How easy is this? Pretty freakin' easy.
I'm not blaming the
Got my capturing done and my toys put away. Images processed and composited and here is the result. Better than last night to my eye, at least.
20191203 20_08_48_g4_ap91_stitch V2 by Bryan Gabbard, on Flickr
I think I need to go get myself a box of crayons and a coloring book. I'm wound just a wee bit too tightly lately.
So how was your day?