Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/08

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Solar Eclipse Photography ('R')
From: David Young <youngs@IslandNet.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 96 09:32 PDT

At 05:35 PM 07/10/96 -0400, Marc Small wrote:
>At 11:04 AM 10/7/96 PDT, David Young wrote:
>
>>More importantly, I chase Solar clipses for a hobby, and bundling an M on
>>the back of my 1000mm just doesn't seem like a good idea! :>  
>
>
>I presume you mean eclipses.

Yeah!  Brain works. Fingers don't!  :>

>I don't "chase" them, though they keep chasing me, and I've sat through a
bunch.

Lucky you!  

>I do a fair amount of astro-photography,
> and there's nothing at all wrong with an M6 and Viso on a Questar.  Try it:
>it's addictive.

I think I'll save for the Questar first --- poverty forces the use of a
Celestron C-90 w/o finder!  Not a questar, but the photos still look pretty
good on the wall. 

If funds improve, I'll give it a go!  (But I still like my 'R'!)


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