Re: [APML] comet blues

[Chuck Vaughn <aa6g@aa6g.org>]

Tony,

Ahh! You forgot Chuck's number 1 rule of astrophotography in California:

Seeing is always terrible when we have an offshore flow. :-)

Don't expect much better tonight.

Chuck <aa6g@aa6g.org>

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Last night it finally cleared up, there was the comet way up high in the
sky... but... either the seeing was so bad that the stellar nucleus was a
blob or the comet has faded to the point that it ain't there (stellar
nucleus)... at any rate, even with a telecompressor lens in front of the
ST-4, it wouldn't pick up the comet...  you guys with the Schmidt cameras
have a huge advantage over the refractor guys... I guess I could give it one
last try tonight using the STV... at least with that I know it's on the
comet and not some neighboring star.
 
     Tony




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