Andre

No, i'm in Sydney, Australia. home of the fabulous drain on services
Olympics and light pollution from 4 million people.

It's been a really -dry- 40 deg. Which means wind from the NW (desert),
dust all over the scope...and shaky images.

The closest I got to a Montreal winter was Edmonton in March.

Less Orange skies to All

James

PS And I'm still cooking up my scope control system - I have the sources
out in the field.....any day/week now.


At 06:19 14-02-00 -0500, you wrote:

>Christian: satellites:
>
> best thing is get the latest orbital elements.
> Once I did this, the pretty little geo-synchronous sats
> popped right in the center of my CCD frame with no
> adjustment. I made some smashingly neat MPEG movies
> of them with the star field zipping by.
>
> Bill's site will tell you where to get these.
>
>James:
>
> Are in in Malaysia? I just came back from Singapore,
> switching from 28 celcius to -10 C or so and a foot of snow.
> Lovely Montreal winters.
>
>Cheers
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