well from the look of that image it seems you
remembered where all the cables went :-) Very nice

Owen

At 10:59 28/10/2008, you wrote:

>Hello friends,
>
>it seems it has been quite a while since I posted an image to the
>group.
>This is mainly due to a very annoying mixture of bad weather and
>little time for the beloved hobby.
>…cloudy nights and overcast days give the chance to use ones time for
>different things:
>Educational talks on astro-related events, astro-education in public
>schools and more importantly, getting some interesting projects on
>wheels like raising people's sensitivity to the IYA09, light-
>pollution
>and dark-sky per se.
>Politians are hard to convince about things that really make sense
>for
>all of us (and not so much for the political party…),…the only
>argument they tend to accept is: money,…and introducing
>low-power-consuming laps and street-lights seems to be the very key…
>but this is really OT here…sorry.
>Next summer we (the ars electronica center in linz and me) intend to
>let the „city-fathers" turn out all „un-essential" lights at night
>(well, that must be something like 99%...) around the main-place in
>town (250.000 inhab) and conduct a public huge star-party for each
>and
>everyone. Should be cool!
>
>A couple days ago I was lucky to find time AND clear skies…it took me
>a while to figure how to run all the cables between the scope,
>filterwheel, electric focuser, and stuff…*g*
>Honestly – after more than 8 weeks of „abstinence" in astrofotografic
>terms I was just about to loose my routine here…
>Well, here we are with a version of ngc 891, imaged with my „big boy"
>the 9" tmb apo und decent conditions.
>
>I hope looking at the image gives you a good time *g*
>
>All data is on the website.
><http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891.html>http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891.html
>
>here is the link to the full-size frame:
><http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891-full.html>http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/891-full.html
>
>thanks a lot for taking a look – and I apologize for the looong post.
>Best to you all and tell all the people being your reach about IYA
>and
>what it's all about.
>Dietmar
>
>

Owen Brazell



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