hugo825•1mo agoTop Commenter

The night I drove to Joshua Tree for the Perseids and got a flat tire

Had everything set up perfectly for the peak, my camera on a new star tracker I rented. A rock on the dirt road popped my tire right as the first meteor streaked across the sky. Spent the next hour changing it under my headlights instead of shooting. Anyone have a good story about an astronomy trip that went sideways?

4 comments

4 Comments

evan_campbell1mo ago

Ugh, my buddy forgot his tripod once.

grant.sam1mo ago

Man that's the worst kind of luck right there. Did you at least have a full size spare or one of those little donut tires? After my own blowout on a backroad, I started carrying a plug kit and a small 12 volt air pump in my trunk. They're cheap and can fix a simple puncture in ten minutes without taking the wheel off. It won't save you from a sidewall tear, but for a rock poke it's a total game changer. Means you can get back to the important stuff, like watching the sky fall apart.

julia_carter7027d ago

My buddy Dave drove three hours to some dark spot in New Mexico for the Perseids once and forgot his camera battery was dead. He sat there watching the show with his phone flashlight on trying to charge it off a portable pack that was also dead lmao. At least you got a story out of it and didn't just sit in the dark cursing at a bricked camera.

carr.brooke27d ago

Nah, I'd honestly rather sit in the dark staring at nothing than deal with all that hassle.