Re: [APML] TSP report

["John C. Mirtle" <jmirtle@shaw.ca>]

Thanks for the report Robert, I'm glad I didn't travel the 2500+ miles to
get there! Sorry to hear that it didn't work out. I am intrigued by your
comments on focusing Schmidts. Would you care to elaborate??

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Reeves" <reeves10@swbell.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: [APML] TSP report


> Well... Tony hit it on the head.  He sent me an email just before TSP
saying
> I was going to get skunked at this year's Texas Star Party.  He was right.
> Of the five days I was there, only one night was good, Wednesday.
Thursday
> and Friday were iffy until early AM, but even them there was high sirus
that
> mucked things up at times and over the horizon lightning flashes played
hell
> with with wide-aperture astrophotography.
<- snip ->
>
> But on the upside, I did get to meet old friends, see some of the faces
> behind APML names, and best of all, got some good advice on how to refocus
> my Schmidt camera (which I found was out of focus three days before I left
> for TSP).
>
> 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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