Re: [APML] Photos from the last dark period

["Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>]

Dear John,

      I was able to access the last two photos but not the first two; 
and I could not access your website.  Something about my client being 
forbidden access to this file.  I am using Netscape 4.78 on a Power 
Mac.  What gives?

Paul

>After some recent computer problems, that finally ended with me getting a
>new one ;o) , I've been able to scan and process some images taken earlier
>this month, on the weekend of that great aurora display.
>
>First, the aurora itself :
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/aurora_1.htm
>
>
>I was in Rangeley, Maine that weekend on a dark sky trip with my local astro
>club. We did a LOT of observing the Friday night before the aurora, as we
>had a group of only about a dozen people and 15, 18, 20 and 36" Dobsonians!
>I still managed to get a couple of shots in with my TV85 though.
>
>The nebulosity around Gamma Cygni:
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/gamma_cygni.htm
>
>
>And the Cocoon Nebula:
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/ic5146.htm
>
>Here's a link to a wider view of the Cocoon shot that includes the open
>cluster NGC7209:
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/ic5146_ngc7209.htm
>
>
>As some of you may know, I now usually place a string mask over the
>objective to make diffraction spikes on the brighter stars in my TV85 shots.
>Those of you that don't like the effect will be happy to know I forgot to
>use it on the Gamma Cygni shot. This time <g>.
>
>
>John Boudreau
>http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/astro.htm
>
>
>
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