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[Jeremy Perez <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

It was a pleasure to meet you and Jenn this weekend, as it was to be  
treated to Don's excellent presentation. I also owe a debt of  
gratitude to Dave Healy for an invitation to join you all at the  
Clark Telescope that evening. Thanks for posting a link to your  
photos--those are great wide-angle shots inside the observatory. If I  
had realized you were fisheyeing it, I would have tried harder to  
keep out of your way...sorry if I made it tough for you to get  
uncluttered images.

I have a few shots from the evening posted here:

http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/000518.html

What a beautiful telescope and observatory.

Best regards,
Jeremy Perez
http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus

On Nov 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Tom Polakis wrote:

> On the day after Don Machholz's SAC presentation, Jenn and I picked  
> up Rick Rotramel, and the four of us went to Flagstaff, where Don  
> presented again to the Coconino Asronomical Society.  Later that  
> night, we were treated to a private observing session at Lowell's  
> 24" Clark telescope, thanks to the generosity of Dave Healy.
>
> The seeing forecasts predicted lousy seeing, and it wasn't lying!   
> At a magnification of less than 200x, Mars was a quivering mass of  
> Jell-O with no features visible.  So it was on to something that's  
> not so dependent on seeing:  the Crab Nebula.  After a half hour of  
> different people  moving the giant scope around, including using  
> the Telrad, nothing was seen.  How about the moon?  We all got a  
> full-aperture look at the moon.  I have to say that the view I had  
> that night of the moon was exceeded in badness only by the view of  
> the moon through a Halleyscope that Chris Schur purchased on a lark  
> in 1986.
>
> Anyway, pictures from Lowell and a side trip to the Tom Bopp  
> discovery site (a.k.a. "Vekol") with Steve and Rosie Dodder are here.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/polakis/machholz2005
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