npub1c0…0m9e5 on Nostr: Looks like 3 nights in a row of clear skies was too much to ask for. It was clear at ...

Looks like 3 nights in a row of clear skies was too much to ask for. It was clear at dusk but there's a lot of broken cloud out there now, and the app thinks it's only going to get worse as the night goes on.

The smart telescope is smart enough to discard bad exposures, whether they're caused by cloud, obstructions, or tracking problems, so I can just leave it running and it'll do its best with whatever breaks in the clouds that it does get, but I'm not expecting great results from tonight.

The Seestar only ended up with a total of 112 minutes on IC 4592 despite being on that target for almost four hours, so it must have discarded about 50% of the exposures due to clouds. In accordance with the plan it's now moved on to the Cat's Paw and Lobster nebulae, but it's discarding about half of the exposures there too.

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