What do you do to chase the clouds off? Anything goes · AmyWarble · ... · 41 · 1175 · 0

Gondola 8.11
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Himanshu Pandey:
I'm able to round up the clouds around here and deport them on my own accord faster than anyone can blink.

This is why it is cloudy where you live.

00000hhhhhh!
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jhayes_tucson 26.84
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It always rains right after I wash my car so I drive the dirtiest car in town…
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darkmattersastro 11.95
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Sending your scope to Chile definitely gets rid of most of the clouds.
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jhayes_tucson 26.84
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Dark Matters Astrophotography:
Sending your scope to Chile definitely gets rid of most of the clouds.

True.  It's also why I don't have a car in Chile!
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darkmattersastro 11.95
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John Hayes:
Dark Matters Astrophotography:
Sending your scope to Chile definitely gets rid of most of the clouds.

True.  It's also why I don't have a car in Chile!


I also do not recommend painting the outside of your house. It seems to want to rain the next day if you do that.

Installing Sod isn’t a bad idea though. Since you want it to rain after that, it won’t!
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messierman3000 7.22
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if you don't want it to rain, just pour water over the telescope smile
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bdm201170 8.64
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welcome to my world

BORTLE 9 SQM 16.84 ( Miami city)
, tropical weather , never  more that three good nights without  rain , clouds ,winds
and my number one , humidity around 90%
and when good night  comes the  moon is there jejejeje

so , smile and enjoy the night

and  never stop  looking at the stars

CS
Brian
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messierman3000 7.22
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Brian Diaz:
and when good night  comes the  moon is there jejejeje


to add to this:

When the clear night comes, and the moon is not there, the seeing is bad; and if the seeing is good, then a dust mote is uncorrected after using flats; and if the flats work out okay, the Pixinsight application crashes during stacking, and if the stacking came out okay, and you process it, YOU END UP WITH 10 LIKES ON YOUR IMAGE, HAHAHA. (exaggerating that last part, of course; depends on how good you are at processing)
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GVAstrogirls 3.31
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AmyWarble:
It’s been overcast here for almost three weeks, and I’m starting to feel like I’ve forgotten what stars even look like.

I’ve tried shaking a fist at the sky, yelling dramatic Shakespearean curses, even threatening legal action against the clouds. Not only have the clouds ignored me, I think they're getting bolder. Yesterday one shaped itself like a smug little cumulus and just hovered there, blocking the only patch of sky that dared clear up.

So, fellow astrophotography nerds, I have to ask:


What superstitions or rituals do you have that will make the clouds cooperate and stop being jerks?

Astrophoto processing tutorials and new gear unboxing videos on YouTube - definitely NOT as exciting as goats or dancing naked - but it seems to work.
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padraig 1.20
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This helps…
lunaticoAstro Cloudwatcher 
and when it doesn’t …
a 🍺 does.
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Mikej65 1.20
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I do what we ALL do…I patiently wait to process all the stunning images I've captured until it's cloudy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, right.
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GalacticRAVE 6.67
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Fritz Zwicky is said to have tested whether shooting his gun in the dome of the Palomar 5m is improving the seeing - it did not.
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profbriannz 17.56
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I go away or arrange to go out for the night.  A clear sky mocks me when I am not near my scope.
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Astrodynamix 1.43
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The best cloud filter I found is called U-Haulsmile
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michelerainville
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Prevent forest fires smile
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sebaromano 1.51
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What usually works for me is not buying new astro gear. Because as soon as I do that and in need to try them  out then clouds start to show up from the horizon and quickly cover the sky the whole night
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Pirate_Mike 0.00
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I send the local weather man a check every month, but to little avail.
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