[sac-board] Re: Trip to NASP

Paul;

I plan to have the data and text files available on the CD in plain vanilla 
ASCII text versions and the images in JPEG for the most transportable formats 
available.  Seeing as how CDs have 650 Meg of memory that is plenty of room to 
include lots of all that information.  I do NOT plan to make the entire CD 
available as an image on the web site, I believe that would encourage very long 
downloads that I don't wish to support.  Also, the point of all this is to make 
some money for the schloarship fund.

As to your point about the media only costing pennies, the same is true of 
music CDs and they are 8 to 20 dollars because the information on the disk is 
worth it.  I do honestly believe that a well done disk of data, text and images 
from SAC is worth 10 bucks.  I know you are going to come back and say people 
can download it, but some folks will want to have it all available on one neat 
disk.  That is my opinion.  Let me get it all together and we will see how many 
folks want a copy.

Steve

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Author:  Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist

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