Good morning, David. It’ll be something new to me, and really it’s a product of
confinement. I’ve had the telescope for years, but it “disappeared” into a back
bedroom closet and when I recently had time to clear the closet I stumbled upon
it. After having seen some of Howard’s night time shots and more recently a
series of images from the BBC web-site I thought I’d give it a try. I’ll pass
the "soon to be attempts" as I progress.
Speaking of the skies and photography, and this inquiry goes out to everyone,
have y’all noticed the distinct decrease in con-trails during the day and
blinking lights at night? Down here there’s been a distinct decrease of
aviation activity across the skies that I’m under. It reminds me a lot of the
days immediately after the events of 09/11/2001, though it's not a total stop
of activity like back then.
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Apr 1, 2020, at 6:58 PM, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Afternoon, Peter!
I didn't realize that you were an astrophotographer. New hobby? Or, have you
been at it for yonks?
In my late teens (that's back when the earth was cooling) I hand ground both
6" and 8" mirrors, as a hs astronomy club project, but never got round to
finishing the scope before I left school.
The Mead EXT-90 you have looks to be a nice bit of kit and I hear good things
about Meade. I never did get into night time observing, though I did acquire
a passion for shooting solar eclipses - 5 so far.
In that pursuit I've owned a number of catadioptric lenses, including an
older Celestron C-90 (no motor drive) Schmidt-Cassegrain, and a Russian MTO
(Maksutov-Cassegrain), before finally settling on a Nikon 500/8 Mirror lens
(with Leica-R mount!).
Will you show us some of your astro work? I, for one, would love to see it!
David.
Good morning to you all. I recently purchased some adapter kits for a------
Meade ETX 90 telescope from these folks, and I was impressed with their
quality and delivery, though in fairness they are only a couple of
counties to the south of me here in Florida in the city of Cape Coral.
If you ever need another source for hardware or just curious about their
inventory to mount a camera to a scope ya might just take a look.
Best regards,
Peter S.
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