Strong winds in Cabrera
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 4:41AM It is difficult to sleep well when you have two telescopes on a platform up a mountain and a gale outside is threatening to blow both scopes away. It is 5.40 a.m. and checking the scopes half an hour ago I realised that the scope cover had been expertly removed from the smaller (CGEM) scope by the wind with snapped elastic cords lying around. I removed the OTA/camera assembly and brought it inside - replacing the cover over the tripod and power supplies which are in plastic boxes held down by heavy rocks. The tripods of both scopes are strapped down. The big scope is literally fastened to the mountain rocks with heavy strapping. The smaller tripod is strapped to the two heavy cannons that are the real reason for having the platform in the first place. Tomorrow a trip down to Turre to buy more elastic cords! Oh and probably a lot of sleep!