[APML] Texas Star Party glow?

[Robert Reeves <reeves10@swbell.net>]

Greetings list,

Were any of you at the 2001 Texas Star Party?  I ask because last weekend I
discovered there were 10 shots of E200 left in one of my Nikon bodies, so I
finished it off up at my observatory.  I got the film back from processing
this weekend and the images I took Saturday, Jan 12, 2002 at my observatory
were great.  But there were some shots I took at TSP last year and then
forgot about.  In fact, there were five pre-TSP shots at the beginning of
the roll and they also were just fine.  However, all the TSP shots had a
very noticable red glow to them.  About half of them where aimed low enough
that the forground was in the image as well.  This included many red LED
lights from telescopes, marker blinkies, red flashlights, etc.  In other
words, the usual tangle of red lights you see in a ground level shot of a
star party.  That tangle of dim red lights made me wonder if the pervasive
red glow visible in the TSP-only pictures may have been red light from all
these red lights being reflected from airborn TSP dust.  I can understand
one, amybe two of my shots being zapped by an errant red flighlight, but not
all of them.  And the glow is quite homogenous across each field of view, so
I discount a stray flash light.  I did not experience this phenomenon at
Okie-Tex.  Did anyone else have a similar problem with their TSP
photography?

Robert Reeves                      reeves10@swbell.net
520 Rittiman Rd.                   www.robertreeves.com
San Antonio, Texas 78209    210-828-9036
USA                                     29.484  98.440  200 meters



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