Re: [APML]: Astrophotographer's Woe

["Jim Pennington" <penningtonj@email.msn.com>]

Will,

Sorry to hear that you are taking the bad weather so badly.

If you don't mind reshooting some of the objects you have shot in the past,
just take one of your favorite photos and put in up against a wall in a
large enclosed area such as in a gymnasium.  Set up the scope with the motor
drive off (or you'll get trailed stars), frame up the photo on the wall in
the viewfinder, focus the camera and start the exposure.  Guiding is
unneccessary.

You could use some of the photos in the astro magazines but I find the
"grain" gets objectionable if you blow up the shot very much.

Cheer up,
Jim
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lab/6529
-----Original Message-----
From: Wil Milan <wmilan@airdigital.com>
To: astro-photo@nightsky.com <astro-photo@nightsky.com>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 10:44 PM
Subject: [APML]: Astrophotographer's Woe


>
>Here I sit, brokenhearted,
>Came to shoot, rain just started.
>
>-- Wil M.
>
>(Another night of rain in central Arizona, which I thought was supposed to
be a
>desert. How much longer will this El Nino thing continue?!?)
>
>
>
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