I should point out that I have only been a syndicate member on P3 now for 4 months, so I am not fully aware what 'normal' is regarding pier data.
Since joining in October I have downloaded 6 usable data sets - one of which was the M27 competition, so 5 from P3. Of which one has been my own submission. In addition, I have downloaded 19 unusable datasets - mainly cloud and poor focus. What I am wondering is whether this ratio is normal? I realise over the winter period cloud and weather is more of a problem, but this does seem to be quite a high ratio of failed images. It is possible I might be able to rescue one or two of these images by using minimal data, but that seems to defeat the object of remote imaging.
Is this amount of poor data normal? I have managed the same number of images in this time from Cumbria (admittedly on two imaging piers), so slightly unfair as a comparison. I would add that this has been my worst year ever in terms of cloud, so I would expect the Spanish rigs to be way ahead.
I was just wondering what everyone else's thought's were?
Ian