My telescope mount died during the Perseids and I almost lost it

Honestly, I was out at a dark spot near Lake Huron around 2 AM trying to capture the meteor shower. My Orion mount just froze up and stopped tracking mid-shot, so I had to manually adjust the tripod every 30 seconds for two hours. Ended up with only 3 usable frames out of 50, but one of them caught a bright fireball streaking right through Andromeda. Has anyone else had their gear fail at the worst possible moment and still managed to salvage something cool?

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matthewgonzalez9d ago

Read somewhere that Perseids peak right when most gear decides to quit.

lane.angela9d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah @matthewgonzalez the Perseids peak in August actually. Gear quits year round.