[AZ-Observing] Re: Daytime Saturn Event

I played hookey from work, leaving about 30-minutes early to come home for 
egress. The eave of my house blocked the Moon until about 16:45 local (MST) 
time. I shot about 15 exposures on a roll of ISO 400 print film with the last 
six definitely showing Saturn emerging along the bright limb. Now, if only I 
had the focus accurately set and  the periods of calm wind really were 
calm... Whatever the case, I get the prints back Thursday after 5:00pm. Wish 
me luck.

Oh, BTW, I was shooting negative projection through my 10-inch, f/4.5 
Newtonian. The 2x Barlow between the primary and my Nikon F3 converted the 
scope to a 2274-mm, f/9 telephoto. I shot the Moon on auto with 1/250-second 
exposures and then bracketed exposures manually, rotating through 1/60, 1/125 
and 1/250.

Regards,

Bill Ferris
Flagstaff, AZ


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