Re: [Utah-astronomy] Hard lessons in amateur astronomy
Patrick, I'd put that one out on E-bay if I were you. You could make a few extra dollars maybe. I liked the shot too. Debbie On Wed Feb 25 11:31 , Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> sent:
Hey, I love your shot of the moon occulting Orion! -- jb
--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Patrick Wiggins paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Hard lessons in amateur astronomy To: "Utah Astronomy" utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:54 AM
On 25 Feb 2009, at 00:11, Joe Bauman wrote:
Need to feel better about your astro-mistakes? Read my blog:
http://deseretnews.com/blogs/monthly/1,5553,10000034,00.html\?bD=20090224&sc=dmn
Ouch! That was almost painful to read. :)
And I would very much like any comments that might shed light on other errors, so that folks might avoid them -- or at least get a chuckle out of them.
Ok, here are a couple from the days of film photography (taken at Little Stonehenge):
Forgot to advance the film between exposures. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0893.jpg
Forgot to close the shutter before using a red light to check the scope's corrector plate for dew. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0903.jpg
patrick
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Sorry, Something was wrong with the URL I had sent. It doesn't seem to work anymore. Here's the new one. http://deseretnews.com/blogs/1,5322,10000034,00.html?bD=20090224 -- Joe --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> wrote: From: Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Hard lessons in amateur astronomy To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 10:00 PM Patrick, I'd put that one out on E-bay if I were you. You could make a few extra dollars maybe. I liked the shot too. Debbie On Wed Feb 25 11:31 , Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> sent:
Hey, I love your shot of the moon occulting Orion! -- jb
--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Patrick Wiggins paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Hard lessons in amateur astronomy To: "Utah Astronomy" utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:54 AM
On 25 Feb 2009, at 00:11, Joe Bauman wrote:
Need to feel better about your astro-mistakes? Read my blog:
http://deseretnews.com/blogs/monthly/1,5553,10000034,00.html\?bD=20090224&sc=dmn
Ouch! That was almost painful to read. :)
And I would very much like any comments that might shed light on other errors, so that folks might avoid them -- or at least get a chuckle out of them.
Ok, here are a couple from the days of film photography (taken at Little Stonehenge):
Forgot to advance the film between exposures. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0893.jpg
Forgot to close the shutter before using a red light to check the scope's corrector plate for dew. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/0903.jpg
patrick
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