[APML] additions to Schmidt camera guide

[Robert Reeves <reeves10@swbell.net>]

Hello list folks,

I guess the bright moon is keeping the Schmidt camera owners indoors this
weekend because I have heard from a number of them.  I just posted some
additions to the Schmidt camera guide.  They are all on one page, so
previous readers need only check out
http://www.robertreeves.com/repair12.htm

Included are the use of a glass H-Alpha filter by Richard Payne while Stefan
Beck has shared his use of an aperture stop to control vignetting, a
homemade dew cap and shutter (front cover) assembly, a removable finder
bracket, and how he addaped Wratten filters to his camera without using the
"factory" filter holders.

On another note: it looks like the months of misserable cloudy weather in
south Texas has finally passed.  I have enjoyed 11 consecutive clear nights
where I have been able to shoot over 1000 digital images of the moon from my
driveway.  Of course, I have only kept about 40 or 50 of them.  The process
of selecting the best view of a particular eyepiece field usually takes
longer than the actual process of setting up the scope, shooting the
pictures, then putting it all away.

I figured out the other night that the amount of Tech Pan I would have
needed to shoot the same number of lunar pictures I have done since getting
the digital camera would have cost more than the digital camera did (and it
wasn't cheap!)  This puppy has paid for itself in six months and produces
better lunar pictures by accident than I ever did on purpose with the Nikon
F and Tech Pan.

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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