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Subject: RE: [Leica] aurora alerts for North America
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:20:29 +0100

Jason,
Impressive pictures!
I'm no expert at all on taking shots like this but I'm struck by two 
things.
1	You get a lot more colour out of FP4+ than I ever can ;-)
and seriously
2	Did the moon photo get taken with a moving camera? I know were often 
moved emotionally by our Leicas but I think you know what I mean. I'd have 
thought that with Tech Pan, especially, the moon would have moved across 
the negative during the image and blurred the picture.

I did take a picture of the moon once but it was nowhere near as good as 
this (even though my stock was even slower - perversely a 5ASA 35mm line 
film!) and the only time I pointed a telephoto lens at the sun (it was 
behind a cloud at the time) it burnt a hole in my shutter blind after I 
went to make a cup of tea!

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Jason Hall [SMTP:JASON@jbhall.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent:	05 October 2000 13:05
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: [Leica] aurora alerts for North America

Yes indeed, sunspot activity is at the peak of its 11 year cycle, last
time I looked I counted at least 16 major spots, I have a photograph
here http://www.sgurr.freeserve.co.uk from about two weeks ago if
anyone is interested, there were fewer spots then than there are now.

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO VIEW THE SUN DIRECTLY WITHOUT CORRECT
EQUIPMENT.

Jason Hall


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brougham" <brougham3@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:50 AM
Subject: [Leica] aurora alerts for North America


> For those in North America, this link about aurora activities may be
> of interest.  You can get real-time alerts for auroral activity.
Keep
> your Leica handy and loaded, and off you go!  :)
>
> http://angwin.csl.uiuc.edu/~haunma/aurora/
>
>
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