Re: [APML]: barndoor tracker question

[Robert Reeves <rreeves@connecti.com>]

At 04:19 PM 2/26/98 EST, you wrote:
>
>Tom Krajci wrote:
>
>>300mm lens shots for 25 minutes.
> 
>>20mm lens shots for 60 minutes.
> 
>>I got to take naps during exposures! ;-)
> 
> Tom:
>
>This is quite remarkable!  How are the star images on the 300 mm shots?  My
>longest time at 200 mm with good images has been 8 minutes unguided with a
>Scotch Drive.
>
>If we could get you to write some C-code I'm frightened to think what might
>happen.<g>
>
>Dave.
>
>

I have many of Tom's photos in my possesion right now as illustration source
material for my Willmann-Bell book.  I can sate the the star image quality
with his 300 mm barndoor shots is as good as anyone else's guided piggyback
work.  I am pleasantly surprised by how well it works.

BTW Tom, I will ship your scrapbooks back to you this Saturday.

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